Re: ecj branch

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Mohan Embar writes:
 > Hi Andrew,
 > 
 > > > What state is the ecj branch in?
 > >
 > >It's lovely.
 > 
 > Cool.
 > 
 > > >  Would it be foolhardy of me to pull it down and try to build it on
 > > > MinGW?
 > >
 > >No.
 > >
 > >Use this url: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcj/gcj-eclipse-merge-branch
 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
 > You had mentioned park() and unpark() off list. Are these needed
 > to use the branch?

No: a correct definition of park is

void
_Jv_ThreadPark (jboolean isAbsolute, jlong time)
{
}

It's just inefficient.  For short-lived accesses it probably doesn't
matter anyway.

 > If not, what won't I be able to do until these are implemented? Are
 > there any other holes you can think of?

Just the ones you know about anyway: stacktraces, etc.

Andrew.