Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 05:50:52 JST
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: controlling where go32 puts program

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   Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 13:06:43 PDT
   From: Marty Leisner <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>

   > >   I want to recursivesly do makes...
   > >
   > >   It seems each invocation takes over 100k out of my conventional memory,
   > >   so after 3 levels I'm "out of space to exec"
   > >
   >         Another solution, I don't know how plausible this is, is to modify 
   > the make sources. Add in an 'intelligent' parser which looks for the make 
   > command in the current line in the makefile, and simply recusrsively calls 
   > itself (maybe directly calling the main() function, problems with static 
   > variables though). This would not require the operating-system or go32 to 
   > hae to worry about swapping. Plus it would be a LOT faster. (No swapping out 
   > to disk.)
   >         Just my ideas......(It's probably been done, but by who????)
   > 
   >                         Martin.
   > 

   It probably is a bad idea to munge the make sources...

   But it is a good idea to implement shared text in djgcc -- if you
   spawn the same program, the text is already in memory, so use it...




   marty
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