Remaining Itanium exception, static linking patches
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Thu Mar 14 11:56:00 GMT 2002
>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:
Hans> The last patch shouldn't be checked in. It has nothing to do
Hans> with Itanium, but is a stopgap to allow me to link SPECjbb
Hans> statically, which unfortunately makes a substantial performance
Hans> difference. It was suggested by someone else (Bryce?) I post
Hans> it here for discussion, since I'm not sure there will be another
Hans> solution in 3.1, and I think it is still a real issue. Is there
Hans> a better (e.g. less US-centric) solution we could get into 3.1?
This is one of those places where static linking falls down.
I don't know of a better fix. We could force all the locale files to
be linked in. That's pretty extreme though.
Bryce noted that we'd save a lot of space if we used property files
for locale data (built with gcj -R) instead of classes like we do now.
That's definitely on the to-do list. This might help with static
linking, but it amounts to linking everything in.
Tom
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