[BC ABI] gcj-abi-2-dev-branch created

[Bryce McKinlay]

Tom Tromey wrote:

>>>>>>"Per" == Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
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>Per> If the plan is to for the foreseeable future to support two ABI's
>Per> in the same source tree, do we really need a separate branch?
>
>I think this code is pretty intrusive, so a branch makes sense while
>we iron out the bugs.
>  
>

Hopefully the branch won't be around for too long, its really just a 
place for us to share changes/hacks which arn't ready for mainline yet. 
I personally don't like the idea of having too many branches to deal 
with ;-)

>Per> In any case, is there a design document?  If not, we need one now.
>
>There was an IBM paper about an approach to this that serves as a
>useful starting point.  It is easily googled.  
>

Also Dachuan Yu's paper* "Supporting Binary Compatibility with Static 
Compilation"*

http://flint.cs.yale.edu/flint/publications/bincomp.html

Regards

Bryce