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[Gcl-devel] GCL and fork()/system/gcc
From: |
Camm Maguire |
Subject: |
[Gcl-devel] GCL and fork()/system/gcc |
Date: |
17 Apr 2005 16:05:37 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Greetings! Its just come to my attention that GCL may face some
artificially stiff memory requirements at compilation time due to our
calling gcc via fork(). I had thought that on most Linux-like
systems, fork() used copy on write pages, and required no immediate
extra memory. I may be mistaken, and fork() may fail if there is not
at least twice the current *virtual* memory available on the system.
If so, we should redesign and call gcc via run-process. can anyone
please verify this hypothesis?
Take care,
--
Camm Maguire address@hidden
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- [Gcl-devel] Re: describe bug, was: Re: [Maxima] First step toward a 5.9.2 release, Camm Maguire, 2005/04/01
- [Gcl-devel] Re: describe bug, was: Re: [Maxima] First step toward a 5.9.2 release, Camm Maguire, 2005/04/02
- [Gcl-devel] Re: describe bug, was: Re: [Maxima] First step toward a 5.9.2 release, Camm Maguire, 2005/04/02
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: describe bug, was: Re: [Maxima] First step toward a 5.9.2 release, Vadim V. Zhytnikov, 2005/04/10
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: describe bug, was: Re: [Maxima] First step toward a 5.9.2 release, Camm Maguire, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: describe bug, was: Re: [Maxima] First step toward a 5.9.2 release, Vadim V. Zhytnikov, 2005/04/17
- [Gcl-devel] GCL and fork()/system/gcc,
Camm Maguire <=
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: describe bug, was: Re: [Maxima] First step toward a 5.9.2 release, Camm Maguire, 2005/04/18
Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: describe bug, was: Re: [Maxima] First step toward a 5.9.2 release, Camm Maguire, 2005/04/05