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Re: precompiled header support
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: <tm_gccmail at kloo dot net>
- Cc: Dave Korn <dk at artimi dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 12:11:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: precompiled header support
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0405111356390.12705-100000@mail.kloo.net>
<tm_gccmail@kloo.net> writes:
> On Tue, 11 May 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> Mind you, I worry that this kind of reasoning may harbour unstated
>> all-the-worlds-a-*nix assumptions. Gunther mentions the Amiga/68k; I can't
>> think of any other host platforms off the top of my head, but it's a good
>> example: it's a non memory-protected OS, where all apps share the same
>> memory space (yeh; a bit out-of-date, I know, but it imposes a bit of
>> discipline on your resource allocation and deallocation coding techniques
>> when you know you have to free every malloc because it won't get released
>> just because your process exits!)...
>
> It may be "out of date" but here's a few more examples:
>
> ucLinux - no MMU
> PalmOS prior to version 5 - ran on an m68k w/o MMU
> WinCE I believe uses a single address space for all apps
> MacOS for the m68k
MiNT on the Atari ST also does not have virtual memory.
Andreas.
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