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Re: RFC: BC-ABI and Old Verifier
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:14:06 +0000
- Subject: Re: RFC: BC-ABI and Old Verifier
- References: <cru1u6$p0n$1@sea.gmane.org>
Ranjit Mathew writes:
>
> How about making either -findirect-dispatch the default
> *or* resurrecting the old verifier for the non-BC-ABI
> case?
That's what we do.
> The current situation would cause users unnecessary pain
> (e.g. PR 5537) so it should be resolved either one way
> or the other, or we risk having to listen to lots of
> user complaints when GCC 4.0 is released.
>
> With the BC-ABI merge, a lot of the old verifier was
> disabled/crippled (e.g. subroutine verification):
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/java/verify.c.diff?r1=1.66&r2=1.67&only_with_tag=MAIN
>
> If we can't quite make BC-ABI the default yet, we
> should revert verify.c to revision 1.65 (just before
> the BC-ABI merge).
Pre-approved. There's no reason not to revert the old verifier to its
pre-merge state; it was only a temporary kludge.
Andrew.