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Re: Kill hack in java disabling unit-at-a-time
> Jan Hubicka writes:
>
> > apparently this hack went in with tree-ssa merge causing unit-at-a-time
> > to be disabled by default since 4.0.0. Fortunately re-enabling it don't
> > seem to cause any regressions, however I will wait a day before
> > commiting this so people might comment if this don't seem appropriate
> > for stage3.
> >
> > Bootstrapped/regtested i686-pc-gnu-linux, will commit it as obvious if
> > no-one objects :)
>
> It's far from obvious. There were severe problems with unit-at-a-time
> and gcj, and this shouldn't go in without extensive testing. A simple
> 'make check' and bootstrap isn't enough. We'll need time to test this.
How do you propose to test it? If we don't want unit-at-a-time to be
enabled for 4.1, can we just move it into option handling instead of
such a hidden hack?
Honza
>
> Andrew.