970917 on mips-sgi-irix6.2, haifa disabled: many problems

[Kamil Iskra]

[Cross-posted from egcs-bugs]

On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>   > 7) It would be nice if the bytecode stuff could be turned off.
> We're seriously considering just removing it.  It's a poor design,
> poor implementation and nobody's ever used it for anything.

Could you, or somebody else, please explain what this "bytecode" stuff is
all about? Sure, I know what a Java bytecode is, but this thing seems to
be older than Java, so it's probably something completely different...

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