Awt implementation in libgcj?

Tue Dec 14 07:41:00 GMT 1999

> Date: 1999年12月14日 10:49:16 -0500
> From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com>
>> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > : Or is there another reason? If the former, is there another way we
> > : can do it, one which doesn't require a macro in cni.h?
> > 
> > Probably. But I don't understand the desire not to have a
> > configurable cni.h. What's the problem?
>> We get further from binary compatibility, for one thing. The
> compiler and runtime already must be built with the same thread
> model... the sjlj exception model doubles the number of possible
> incompatible configurations to four.

We already have quite a few configurations where libraries must be
built with the same compiler options as user programs. There's soft
vs hard floating-point, for example.
> At some point users will want to install CNI classes without
> recompiling.

I guess it depends how many alternatives there are. Multilibbing will
cope with most of this.
Andrew.