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Re: [committed] Change default for enable_hash_synchronization_default on PA-RISC
- From: Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx dot de>
- To: John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:01:47 +0200
- Subject: Re: [committed] Change default for enable_hash_synchronization_default on PA-RISC
- References: <m38xo0q95g.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <200606141301.k5ED1YFp013870@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:01:33AM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de> writes:
> >
> > Michael> I would really welcome a backport tp 4.1 branch. This would help me a
> > Michael> lot to make GCJ reliable on Debian hppa.
> >
> > Note that this change affects the ABI. That means if you do a
> > backport then users have to recompile their programs -- at least,
> > programs using the "C++" ABI.
>
> There's another ABI change in 4.1 (fix for passing of complex floats),
> so this additional change may not present much of a problem. As a result,
> I don't think Debian is using 4.1 to any great extent yet. I don't have
> a good assessment of how many others might be using GCJ on hppa and how
> much these users would benefit.
Well, we as Debian Java maintainers decided to use GCJ 4.1 as the
default runtime for Debian (for building and running
applications/libraries). I would call this a great extent. We build and
run e.g. Eclipse with it by default.
Cheers,
Michael
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