[cfe-dev] Why clang needs to fork into itself?

[Richard]

In article <CAAnoKN971ZHsDU-01s5pqbUK2qKNW=_rJy-t=u7ovDd7kOWFyg at mail.gmail.com>,
    Tomasz Mikolajczyk <tmmikolajczyk at gmail.com> writes:

> I haven't see the code but potentially the purpose of forking is to
> handle internal compiler errors, especially the case when the child
> process crashes when processing an input code. That may be easily
> detected and handled properly by the parent process, by collecting the
> trace, logs and by encouraging user to fill an issue in the bug DB,
> etc.

How is this going to work on Windows where fork semantics really aren't
supported?

I've used crash report generator mechanisms on both linux and Windows
that didn't require forking oneself.
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