[committed] Change default for enable_hash_synchronization_default on PA-RISC

[Michael Koch]

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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