HP/Rumors

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <2327 at mhres.mh.nl>, jv at mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
> A quote from the file etc/MACHINES of the GNU 18.50 distribution:
> 
>   "The [HP9000] series 500 has a seriously incompatible memory architecture
>   "which relocates data in memory during execution of a program,
>   "and support for it would be difficult to implement.

What are the implications of this "relocation of data in memory during
execution" and why would it cause Emacs problems but not problems in
general with C programs which use pointers.  (If the HP9000 will move a
block of memory after a pointer to it has been loaded, then the pointer is
now no good... or is it?)
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