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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
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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,
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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