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Re: [RFA] Add JDWP VM_INIT JVMTI callback
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Marco Trudel <mtrudel at gmx dot ch>
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>, Java Patch List <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:12:09 +0000
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Add JDWP VM_INIT JVMTI callback
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Marco Trudel writes:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Marco Trudel writes:
> >
> > > I just wonder how the GCC staff are able to keep the quality so
> > > constant and gcj... well... unfortunately not that constant. Can we
> > > do something to change that?
> >
> > You are doing something to change that, aren't you? You're
> > downloading and testing raw development versions of the code.
>
> Yes, and I will continue that. But if the GCC core team would do the
> same, I probably would have run into way more than 3 compilation
> problems. So maybe we can do something to improve situation here...
You're one of the first persons to test this stuff on Windows boxes,
and AFAIAA definitely the person to try a (famously hairy) Canadian
cross.
> I'm just interested what others think. Maybe we're just too less people
> here to do the same as the GCC core team or we have potential problems
> (as JNICALL) which they don't have...
Well, that's one thing, and also the Windows port of gcc isn't being
heavily worked on at the moment.
> I don't know... But maybe someone on the list knows or has ideas...
We're doing it right. Testing, reporting build problems, and getting
them fixed. We're in "rapid development" mode at the moment. This is
how it is supposed to work.
Andrew.