Re: [BC ABI] gcj-abi-2-dev-branch created

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

Tom Tromey wrote:

> Andrew> * The compiler should no longer open class files referred to when
> Andrew>   compiling class files.
>
> This makes sense for jit mode, but perhaps not for BC by default.
> By default it might be nice to still get "can't find xxx" messages.
>  

I agree with Andrew here. Its pretty common for .jars to ship with 
dependencies that may or may not be available on the classpath at 
runtime. The last thing people want is for the compiler to bail because 
it found a reference to some obscure class that isn't even needed to run 
the app. I agree a warning could be useful in some circumstances, but it 
should be optional.

Regards

Bryce.