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From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Patch cc to create .$O files with DMTMP
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 16:55:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YMADh7pYisdRmeo7@alice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10D646570C35FCC52B90D1F9ABD04AE3@eigenstate.org>

ori@eigenstate.org once said:
> Quoth Jacob Moody <moody@mail.posixcafe.org>:
> > I often have times where I find I have left build artifacts around the system from forgetting
> > to run mk clean. I thought it might be nice for the compiler to create the files with DMTMP
> > to prevent them from getting added to fs dumps.
> >
> > [...]
>
> Makes sense to me -- easy to regenerate files
> that change a lot probably shouldn't go into
> the dump by default.
>
> will commit soon.

I don't think this is a good idea as a default.
Why do intermediate object files deserve special
treatment? Are there any other programs that
create +t files automatically? If you're worried
about the size of the dump, get a bigger disk.

Cheers,
  Anthony

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-09  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-07  1:08 Jacob Moody
2021-06-08 21:39 ` ori
2021-06-08 23:55   ` Anthony Martin [this message]
2021-06-09  0:24     ` kvik
2021-06-09 11:58     ` Jacob Moody

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