Re: gcj/321

[Jeff Sturm <jsturm at detroit dot appnet dot com>]

The following reply was made to PR gcj/321; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@detroit.appnet.com>
To: apbianco@redhat.com
Cc: bryce@albatross.co.nz, java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gcj/321
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:00:07 -0400

 Alexandre Petit-Bianco wrote:
 > Jeff Sturm writes:
 > > Andrew posted a patch that should clear up any WORD_TO_INT problems:
 > >
 > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-08/msg00897.html
 > 
 > Yes. I was also going to give this patch a bit of review and formal
 > testing before approving it (though I'm pretty sure it's fine.)
 
 Oh, that's OK... I meant to say "... if you approve the patch" but hit Send a
 little too quick :\
 
 My proposed fix (which you didn't see) typedef'ed jint as an `int' guaranteeing
 it would be 32 bits on most (all?) platforms that can host GCC.  Andrew left
 jint alone, instead fixing WORD_TO_INT to be more tolerant of various integer
 widths.
 
 I don't have a strong opinion either way, except that "typedef long int32" is
 nonintuitive to say the least... but Andrew's patch indeed fixes gcj/321 on
 Alpha (didn't try it on IA32).  Also there are too many pointer<->int
 conversions in gcj for my comfort.
 
 > > Alex, can you close this PR?
 > 
 > I will. Oh, by the way, have you seen:
 > 
 >   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-08/msg00907.html
 
 Yes.  I haven't looked closely at it... will try it when I get a chance. 
 Thanks.
 
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 Jeff Sturm
 jeff.sturm@appnet.com