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RE: Patch: work around recent shs.h change
- From: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- To: "'Anthony Green'" <green at redhat dot com>, tromey at redhat dot com
- Cc: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:37:19 -0800
- Subject: RE: Patch: work around recent shs.h change
The garbage collector is designed to support only 32- or 64-bit
architectures. I think a straight port to a pure 16-bit architecture is
probably not practical. You'd need a different collector.
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Green [mailto:green@redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 6:24 AM
> To: tromey@redhat.com
> Cc: java-patches@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Patch: work around recent shs.h change
>
>
> On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 17:48, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > Do we really need to think about 16 bit ports? It is hard
> to imagine
> > that working.
>
> Wasn't the H8 port for the lego device a 16-bitter? It didn't use
> libgcj, but I can imagine a stripped down configuration working on
> something like that. Given all this, building in stumbling
> blocks seems
> wrong.
>
> AG
>
>