Re: problem building a GCJ-friendly GNU Crypto

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:

| Roger Sayle <roger@eyesopen.com> writes:
| 
| > I'm currently working on a patch to add an -fevaluation-order command
| > line option to GCC, that sets a flag_evaluation_order variable that
| > can be checked during constant folding to preserve left-to-right
| > evaluation order of binary expressions.  This can then be enabled by
| > default  by the java front-end, which should help make libbackend.a
| > more java friendly.
| 
| Although I agree that it'd be better if the constant folder didn't do
| things that break Java, I don't see why we need an extra command-line
| flag for this.  GCC already has way too many command-line flags, and
| this one seems to add particularly little value.

seconded.  The backend should just know that it is evaluating bits
from Java.  No?

-- Gaby