What happened to java Utf-8 merging patches (was Re: Constant merging buggy? [Re: Java: enable constant merging])

[Bryce McKinlay]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:

>>
>>Interesting, I had not seen these. Anthony, do you recall if libgcj was 
>>working correctly with your version of this patch?
>>
>>In any case, I think its better to rely on the logic in varasm if 
>>possible, rather than have the front end deal with explicit section names.
>>
>
>mergeable_constant_section is for power of 2 sized constants aligned at
>least to its size, utf-8 constants are different. They are more like
>SHF_STRING, with the difference that they contain a header, thus you need
>separate sections for each string length.
>

I see. That would explain why my patch doesn't work.

But in that case, why was mergeable_constant_section trying to merge them?

regards

Bryce.