[Patch] Add option to reduce amount of reflection data to gcj...

David Daney ddaney@avtrex.com
Wed Mar 15 17:49:00 GMT 2006


Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> 
> [Some nitpicking from a Texinfo newbie and enthusiast.]
> 
> David Daney wrote:
> 
>> 
>>+@item -freduced-reflection
> 
> 
> The rest of the options in this list also do not follow this,
> but still: Shouldn't this be "@item @option{-freduced-reflection}"
> instead?
> 
> 
> 
>>+For code that does not use reflection (i.e. the methods in the
>>+@code{java.lang.reflect} package), @code{-freduced-reflection}
>>+will result in proper operation with a savings in executable code size.
>>+
>>+JNI (@code{-fjni}) and the binary compatibility ABI
>>+(@code{-findirect-dispatch}) do not work properly without full
>>+reflection meta-data.  Because of this, it is an error to use these options
>>+with @code{-freduced-reflection}.
> 
> 
> "@option{-fjni}" instead of "@code{-fjni}",
> "@option{-findirect-dispatch}" instead of "@code{-findirect-dispatch}",
> etc.
> 

Well I would say in theory, you are correct.  However I think it is best 
to commit it as is because the rest of the file uses similar style.

Then there should probably be a follow on patch to use @option{} in the 
proper places in the entire file.

David Daney.



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