Re: Remaining Itanium exception, static linking patches

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:

Hans> The last patch shouldn't be checked in.  It has nothing to do
Hans> with Itanium, but is a stopgap to allow me to link SPECjbb
Hans> statically, which unfortunately makes a substantial performance
Hans> difference.  It was suggested by someone else (Bryce?)  I post
Hans> it here for discussion, since I'm not sure there will be another
Hans> solution in 3.1, and I think it is still a real issue.  Is there
Hans> a better (e.g. less US-centric) solution we could get into 3.1?

This is one of those places where static linking falls down.

I don't know of a better fix.  We could force all the locale files to
be linked in.  That's pretty extreme though.

Bryce noted that we'd save a lot of space if we used property files
for locale data (built with gcj -R) instead of classes like we do now.
That's definitely on the to-do list.  This might help with static
linking, but it amounts to linking everything in.

Tom