Adams suggestion on reducing executable size

[Øyvind Harboe]

I am working on a project where I'm trying to use a GCC 3.3 
CygWin arm-elf cross compiler. Its a 70MHz ARM w/2-4MB 
flash and 256kb of RAM.

I'd like to use GCJ, but obviously the above sets a
strict limit on the working set.

When going through the mailing lists, I found a suggestion 
from Adam.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2002-11/msg00157.html

I think his suggestion was treated too harshly. 

Clearly there are some configurations where it just plain 
does not make sense to use Java, but surely 4MB flash and 
256kb of RAM isn't below that threshold. Some drastic
measures are necessary to make things fit though.


The alternative to drastic(not always as clean as one 
could wish), is that GCJ is not used at all for these 
sort of embedded configurations.


Øyvind