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Re: gcc: cleaning up top level config
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: kaih at khms dot westfalen dot de (Kai Henningsen)
- Cc: alexr at spies dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:42:17 -0800
- Subject: Re: gcc: cleaning up top level config
- References: <B9F6AF3B.49709%alexr@spies.com> <8$tt3XGmw-B@khms.westfalen.de>
kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
> alexr@spies.com (Alex Rosenberg) wrote on 12.11.02 in <B9F6AF3B.49709%alexr@spies.com>:
> If anyone wanted to do the MPW using world a *BIG* favour, they'd
> implement some version of system(). It *should* be possible, but I don't
> really know how deep you'd need to dig into the MPW runtime ... note that
> you do not need any kind of parallel execution, just stack-like start a
> subprocess, run it, end it, continue main process. That much gives you the
> option to use *lots* of useful Unix tools that are otherwise plain
> impossible, such as make or bash.
I would add that that would eliminate the tentacles that MPW currently
has into the gcc driver, and therefore my major objection to keeping
MPW host support around. Particularly if you implement spawnv() as
well as system()...
zw