Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Stefan Monnier]

Andrea Corallo [2022-10-14 22:37:51] wrote:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>> So we need a recursion blocker in the trampoline generation function.
>> Or -- since trampolines are really fast to generate and we need to do
>> that synchronously anyway -- we could just avoid forking an Emacs do
>> create the trampoline?
> We don't do that because libgccjit (well GCC really) leaks memory.

But we can do that *in the forked Emacs* (this one will exit after
compilation, so leakage is not an issue), so we do fork once but we avoid
forking infinitely.


        Stefan