RFC: Nuke xref code in GCJ

[Ranjit Mathew]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:13:36 +0000, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> Ranjit Mathew writes:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  >   Quite a bit of code in the current GCJ front-end is
>  > controlled with "flag_emit_xref". However, the GCJ
>  > driver program does not accept "-fxref" saying that
>  > it is only valid for C++/ObjC++. If you try to use
>  > "-fxref" with C++, the compiler says that the switch
>  > '-fxref' is no longer supported. :-/
>  >
>  > So we have these dead code blocks all over the place
>  > that impede understanding and unnecessarily bloat the
>  > source.
>  >
>  > I propose to remove all of the code for "flag_emit_xref",
>  > including xref.{c,h}.
>  >
>  > Comments?
> 
> I have no particular objection; I have never looked at the code, and I
> don't know what it does.

Thanks. Both Per and Tom also seemed to 
favour removing the xref code:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2004-q4/msg00683.html

If they still do not have any objections,
I'll prepare a patch to get rid of this code.

Thanks,
Ranjit.

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