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Re: Final intermodule patch
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>, Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>, Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:26:24 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Final intermodule patch
On 13 Jul 2003, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> We should consider not just the implementation techniques, but the
> user-visible impacts. We should certainly also consider the
> applicability of this new facility to situations like "export" and Java,
> where generating a single object file is problemantic.
FWIW Java has no problem with this, and gcj has been compiling multiple
source files to a single .o since 3.1 days. But the language has no
mechanism for user-defined static globals.
I don't doubt the complications for C/C++ at all.
Jeff