Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc.

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net
Tue Feb 6 17:02:00 GMT 2007


Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>> Will using shell wrappers noticably slow down calls to gcc?  Or should
>> we just start explicitly calling i686-pc-cygwin-gcc instead?  (FWIW
>> Gentoo does the equivalent of the latter.)
> 
> I don't think speed itself will be a problem, unless the scripts are
> really naive and involve lots of forks.  However, as I noted before,
> scripts cannot be invoked from non-Cygwin programs.

...but doesn't the script itself involve a fork? On a big project, with 
an extra fork for every source file, that can still add up.

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Matthew
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