ARM support

Geert Bevin gbevin@uwyn.com
Sun Jun 29 06:52:00 GMT 2003


> *shrug*  because I misremembered, or libgcj has grown considerably since I
> last tried it (at least java.nio is new)?

Ok, fair enough :-)

> $ size hello
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 1841772  602412  111332 2555516  26fe7c hello
> 
> $ nm hello | grep 'class\$E$' | wc -l
>     602
> 
> Wow... 602 classes linked into such a small program.

It is mindblowing indeed ! The evident question I then get from someone
that has severe space limitations is : why does such a small program
need to have all these classes linked in. I would answer ... since much
of it is looked up with reflection. However you said reflection is
disabled, so now I'm confused :-/

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