Re: Patch to enable libgcj.dll for MinGW

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Andrew Haley writes:
 > TJ Laurenzo writes:
 >  > > even though an inline body is provided.  If the C++ compiler can prove
 >  > > that an object is an instance of a and not one of its subclasses, it
 >  > > can inline the body.  If it can't prove that, it won't do the
 >  > > inlining.
 >  > Thanks for the correction.  So, for platforms that support it, the
 >  > optimization is indeed  semantically correct.
 > 
 > Right.
 > 
 >  > Can we decide what to do with it?  I am still in favor of removing
 >  > the code entirely, but if the decision is to go with a
 >  > "--disable-inline" option, I will code that up and submit the
 >  > patch.
 > 
 > I'd rather not have a new option.  It makes far more sense to disable
 > the optimization in a target-dependent way -- it's probably just as
 > simple as
 > 
 > #ifdef SUPPORTS_ONE_ONLY
 > 
 > I think -- but I'm not totally sure -- that this is the right ifdef.

Ah, no.  Call supports_one_only().

Andrew.