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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Haren Visavadia <themis_hv at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 06 May 2005 16:13:33 -0600
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- References: <20050506190842.30598.qmail@web25702.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Haren" == Haren Visavadia <themis_hv@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
Haren> You coulder consider just having GCJ inside GCC but
Haren> somehow get it to use GNU Classpath directly, this
Haren> would also reduce it needing to be re-sync with GNU
Haren> Classpath (which I beleive libgcj is based on it) and
Haren> allows you deliver a more up-to-date Java library to
Haren> people faster.
This isn't completely out of the question, but it looks pretty hard.
We'd have to make CNI work with the BC ABI (which we do hope to do),
and also probably solve some tricky library initialization problems.
We have a few divergences from Classpath that would require careful
justification before we would remove them. There's also the question
of what it would cost us at runtime, and whether that tradeoff is
worthwhile.
If/when the CNI thing is fixed it should be possible to try some
experiments here.
Tom