Why does GCJ generate so many explicit checks for null pointers?

[Jeff Sturm]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, David Daney wrote:
> Why check before the constructor call?  Is it ever possible for
> _Jv_AllocObjectNoFinalizer to return null?

No, but the backend optimizers don't know that, or else DCE would
eliminate the test.

Currently only a few java-specific optimizations are done by gcj.

Jeff