Ada, treelang needs to be converted to --enable-mapped-location

Per Bothner per@bothner.com
Thu Sep 30 05:48:00 GMT 2004


Matt Austern wrote:

> On Sep 29, 2004, at 3:50 PM, Per Bothner wrote:
> 
>> I'm close to checking in patches to support --enable-mapped-location
>> for Java.  At that point all of the default-enabled languages work
>> more-or-less (i.e. with a small number of testsuite regressions).
>> If we can fix the regressions, and there are clear benefits (e.g.
>> measurable compilation-speed improvements or better errors reporting)
>> we might make --enable-mapped-location the default for 4.0; if not it
>> will at the very latest become the default in stage1 of 4.1.
> 
> I hope you're only talking about having it "become the default" as
> an intermediate stage toward getting rid of the older way of handling
> source locations.  gcc has way too many knobs, and there are far
> too many combinations of options to test.  If this works, and if it's
> an improvement, then we should just convert to it and not look back.

Of course.   Thus the next paragraph:

   However, we can't rip out the old --disable-mapped-location code
   until the remaining front-ends are converted, and in any case they
   should be fixed soon.
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