[gs-bugs] [Bug 690931] consider not passing large generated C files to compiler to save memory

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http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690931





------- Additional Comments From ralph.giles at artifex.com  2009-11-18 16:19 -------
This is font data required for display of documents which don't embed their own
fonts. The normal build process converts the binary font data to C code and
compiles that into the executable. Something similar is done with the CMap files.

If there's a portable way to ask the linker to embed the binary data directly in
the executable, that might work around the problem. I'm not aware of one.

On a system like maemo where software is always installed by a package manager,
it's reasonable to store associated resources in the filesystem and mmap() them
instead. I don't know if Tor would take a patch to optionally do that. Currently
we compile everything together for convenience.



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