libjava status on Solaris 8/Intel and IRIX 6.5

[Andrew Haley]

Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > Rainer Orth wrote:
 > 
 > >>SEGV handler doesn't work: -fcheck-references.
 > >>
 > >
 > >Indeed.  Same on sparc-sun-solaris2.8, so this is a generic Solaris 2
 > >problem.  We probably need a new spec substitution for this (similar to
 > >DIVIDESPEC and friends)?  Any suggestions for a good name, and I'll provide
 > >a patch and verify it.
 > >
 > 
 > Surely it would be better to use the sjlj exceptions rather than 
 > -fcheck-references? -fcheck-references is going to be really slow, while 
 > sjlj only adds overhead to "try" blocks.

Yes it would, but it's not always possible to use sjlj exceptions
because the whole compiler must be configured this way and C++
suffers.  It's a bettter choice for libgcj, though.

Andrew.