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Re: PCH merge: bootstrap failure, gengtype consumes all file descriptors
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:21:41AM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > >
> > > Care to suggest a patch?
> >
> > We're looking at ~100K of data. Why not build each file in memory,
> > using say an obstack for each, then blat them all to disk when done?
>
> That's another solution, but it is not as easy, since I don't think we
> have an obstack_printf, so you'd have to rewrite much more of gengtype.c.
The glibc obstack_printf knows stdio internals, so we can't just steal
it, but I think a portable implementation should be doable. It's easy
on a system with C99-compliant snprintf, and somewhat harder elsewhere.
zw