[erlang-questions] Erlang static linked interpreter

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

This will not solve your main question, but instead try to help you the
one that came up.

If you want to know the performance gain from using HiPE you should
measure the code execution time with and without HiPE.


bengt

 On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 21:10 +0100, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 21:57, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Ciprian Dorin Craciun writes:
> >  >     Hello all!
> >  >
> >  >     I was just wondering if anyone was able to build a static linked
> >  > Erlang interpreter?
> >  >
> >  >     I've tried today to use `LDFLAGS=-static`, but unfortunately when
> >  > linking it complains of finding `__sigaction` duplicated, once in
> >  > Erlang's own source code, and once in `pthread` library.
> >  >
> >  >     Any ideas? Thanks,
> >
> > If you're on x86, then disable HiPE.  HiPE on x86 needs to override
> > sigaction(), but that only works with dynamic linkage.
> 
> 
>     But if disabling HiPE, I'll have a performance penalty, or? (BTW
> what is the performance gain of using HiPE?)
> 
>     And I'm a little bit confused about overriding `sigaction`. Does
> the code inside Erlang call `sigaction` -- in which case then these
> references could be renamed -- or there is a need to subvert the
> `sigaction` calls in other system libraries. (Isn't there an option
> for GCC to override a symbol?)
> 
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