Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Stefan Monnier]

Andrea Corallo [2022-10-15 15:10:06] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> Dumb question: can't we just run the spawned compilation processes with
>>> --no-site-file?
>>
>> For trampolines, I guess that should work since they shouldn't depend on
>> local customizations.  Of course, a tempting alternative is to resort to
>> "binary hacking", i.e. compile *one* template-trampoline and then
>> generate all every other trampoline by copying that template and
>> patching the right "stuff" into it.  That would save us from running the
>> compiler to generate the trampolines (i.e. it would let us behave
>> correctly on Windows even when GCC/libgccjit is not found at run time),
>> but it would force us to write architecture-dependent code to patch the
>> binary template.
>
> I think writing and maintaining arch dependent code to fix and
> manipulate binaries is really a road we don't want to go down!
>
>  (a terrified) Andrea :)

I tend to agree.  I just wish we could rely on some other tool to do
that for us.


        Stefan