[JAVA PATCH] Enable more array bounds check elimination
Andrew Haley
aph@redhat.com
Thu Jul 14 17:43:00 GMT 2016
On 14/07/16 18:12, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> snip...
>
>> At a very high level, you should be aware of a general belief that GCJ's
>> life is limited. There's been various calls to deprecate it. So
>> spending a lot of time optimizing GCJ's output may not be the best use
>> of your skills :-)
>
> Unless things have changed since it was last discussed, the plan was
> for it to be deprecated in GCC 6 and removed in 7. If that's the case,
> these changes may sadly not see a release.
>
> It does seem that no-one has bitten the bullet of removing it yet though.
It's on my list. The first thing to do before removing the sources
is to change the top-level autoconf and automake scripts not to resurse
into the gcj scripts, but my automake-fu is rather rusty.
Andrew.
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