RFC: Java inliner

[Andrew Haley]

Alexandre Oliva writes:
 > On Jul  1, 2002, Andrew Haley <aph@cambridge.redhat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Daniel Berlin writes:
 > 
 > >> Is the java inliner usable in languages other than java (IE could we 
 > >> replace the current c-inliner with your java inliner)?
 > 
 > > No, because C needs the special C tree nodes.
 > 
 > I wonder if, instead of duplicating the code from tree-inline.c and
 > then modifying it to suit Java, we wouldn't be better off with an
 > #if/#else/#endif (hopefully temporary) mess, so as to avoid divergence
 > between these files...  Then we'd just compile tree-inline.c with a
 > different macro defined to produce the Java inliner object file.

As I said, I did try but halfway through I abandoned it because it was
too untidy.  I certainly could try again, though.  If that's what it
takes to get a Java inliner...

Andrew.