Re: V3 ABI

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>]

Tom Tromey wrote:

> This is something we're hoping to fix with gcc 3.0.  Alex is working
> madly to get libgcj into the gcc tree.  He's also doing the new ABI
> work in gcj (I'll probably do the runtime side once he's determined
> how he wants to handle vtable layout and the like).

That's good news. Any thoughts on how bitmap marking is going to work with
the V3 ABI? I think we'll have to move the class descriptor to the class
object itself, since there wont be a convenient vtable slot, afaik. This
means changes to the GC...

> You might have heard that there is now going to be a gcc 2.95.3
> release.  I'm inclined to simpy ignore it.  If it had been started 6
> months ago I would have said that we should put the new front end into
> it, but now that just seems like make-work, especially given that
> we're a bit behind on the gcc 3.0 work.  Any comments on this?

I agree entirely. We shouldn't mention java wrt 2.95.3, it will just confuse
people.

regards

  [ bryce ]