building libgcj on irix 6.5

[Jeff Sturm]

On 9 Dec 1999, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > (It could be that the old-style exceptions are broken on Alpha, and
> > that would explain why some Java codes didn't run... I'll
> > investigate.)
> 
> With this new sjlj-based code, exceptions should work correctly on
> Alpha.  Please tell us how you get on.

After patching gcc and rebuilding everything for sjlj, yes, exception
handling seems to be OK on Alpha... code that used to abort now
catches/prints the exception.  Thanks!

(I never really knew Alpha/gcj exception handling was broken in the first
place... sometimes it worked, sometimes not.  I wasn't sure whom to
blame.)

Jeff