Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Andrea Corallo]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> 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.

Hi Stefan,

by *in the forked Emacs* you mean Emacs just after fork is called or
after calling fork+exec to start a fresh session?

  Andrea