Re: Win32 and Dynamic Compilation working

[Jonathan Bachrach <jrb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Double <chris@double.co.nz> writes:

> I have dynamic compilation (g2c-eval) working under Win32 using the
> Visual C++ compiler. I had to make a number of changes to get it
> going and I'm not sure it works for all cases. I'll outline the
> changes here to get feedback on what the best approach might be to
> support this (assuming you want to support it in the mainline Goo
> release).

i'm impressed.

> ...  Is there a way of unloading the shared libraries that are
> loaded? Will I run out of file handles and/or address space
> eventually?

on linux, you'll actually run out of roots for the boehm collector
before you run out of address space or dll handles.  you can increase
this limit but clearly it's not a longterm solution to dynamic
compilation.

jonathan