building libgcj on irix 6.5

Thu Dec 9 07:55:00 GMT 1999

Andrew Haley wrote:
> > You might get a successful build with --disable-sjlj-exceptions.
>> It looks as though you've got my libgcj changes in but not my gcj
> changes. Here's the patch.

Thanks Andrew. I had previously searched for "Sjlj" in gcc/java and
came up empty.
Out of curiousity... why are setjmp/longjmp exceptions important, and
why does libgcj only use them on non-Intel, non-SPARC machines by
default? I don't remember seeing it recently on java-discuss. I'm
concerned about the extra overhead incurred with setjmp/longjmp on
platforms where a range-table implementation is available.
-- 
Jeff Sturm
jsturm@sigma6.com