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Re: Final intermodule patch
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point 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: 13 Jul 2003 18:57:26 -0700
- Subject: Re: Final intermodule patch
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307132111080.12506-100000@ops2.one-point.com>
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 18:26, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> 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.
Good to know -- thanks for shedding that light!
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Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
CodeSourcery, LLC