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Re: Indirect dispatch without interpreter?
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:09:10 +1300
- Subject: Re: Indirect dispatch without interpreter?
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10112181626550.11553-100000@mars.deadcafe.org>
Jeff Sturm wrote:
>This patch breaks my sparc-solaris build:
>
>2001-12-15 Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
> ...
> (_Jv_MakeVTable): New function.
>
>_Jv_MakeVTable needs _Jv_BuildGCDescr, which is ifdef'ed out. Does
>_Jv_BuildGCDescr need to be compiled unconditionally now, or will
>_Jv_MakeVTable ever be called without an interpreter? (I'm guessing the
>former, since as I understand it the point of flag_indirect_dispatch is
>to construct all vtables at runtime.)
>
Yes, it should be built unconditionally. _Jv_BuildGCDescr is actually
just a stub at the moment, but at some point we should get around to
implementing it...
regards
Bryce.