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Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc.


Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
...but doesn't the script itself involve a fork? On a big project, with
an extra fork for every source file, that can still add up.

Don't forget that invoking the gcc executable from make or the shell involves a fork anyway. If gcc is 'exec'ed from the script, there will only be the fork that invokes the shell, versus the fork that would have invoked the executable.

Hmm, ok, I was never convinced that bash's exec builtin didn't still involve fork()ing. Now I am (having taken a closer look at it).


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