PCH merge: bootstrap failure, gengtype consumes all file descriptors

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 08:01:13PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > Can gengtype.c be changed so that we operate on only one of its output
> > files at a time so as not to consume so many file descriptors?
> 
> It's possible but not easy.  Probably the easiest thing would be to
> close and re-open the temporary files during processing.  Of course,
> that requires knowing their names...
> 
> 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?

zw