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Re: RFC: Nuke xref code in GCJ
- 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: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:13:36 +0000
- Subject: Re: RFC: Nuke xref code in GCJ
- References: <d03o1a$sfc$1@sea.gmane.org>
Ranjit Mathew writes:
> Hi,
>
> Quite a bit of code in the current GCJ front-end is
> controlled with "flag_emit_xref". However, the GCJ
> driver program does not accept "-fxref" saying that
> it is only valid for C++/ObjC++. If you try to use
> "-fxref" with C++, the compiler says that the switch
> '-fxref' is no longer supported. :-/
>
> So we have these dead code blocks all over the place
> that impede understanding and unnecessarily bloat the
> source.
>
> I propose to remove all of the code for "flag_emit_xref",
> including xref.{c,h}.
>
> Comments?
I have no particular objection; I have never looked at the code, and I
don't know what it does.
Andrew.