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Re: [PATCH] Java: Standard comformant arithmetic


> From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
> Date: 21 Jul 1999 12:34:55 -0300
> 
> On Jul 21, 1999, Andrew Haley <aph@pasanda.cygnus.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > An unfortunate side effect of this is that the libgcj.spec file is now
> > required at compile time as well as at link time.  I don't know if
> > this will be a problem for anyone.
> 
> Since libgcj.spec is only installed by libgcj, which is not part of
> gcc, this *is* a problem.  How about arranging that gcc installs a
> compile-time version of libgcj.spec, and libgcj installs a complete
> version?

Because, as discussed earlier, the compiler **needs to know** whether
libjava can trap divide overflows or not.  Without this information it
cannot generate correct code.

Andrew.


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