libtool, java woes

Tue Apr 10 18:27:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

 Tom> We just want the exception handling code. The compiler
 Tom> generates calls to this code without real user knowledge. I
 Tom> see this as more akin to something like libgcc than, say,
 Tom> libc.
I agree. 
This stuff used to be in libgcc, and I was never entirely convinced it
shouldn't *still* be there. On the one hand, the new ABI gives us a
way of keeping front-end specific code separate from libgcc, which is
good; on the other hand, it makes this kind of sharing harder.
I still don't think you should link in libsupc++, though. Instead, we
should package the EH code separately, as a shared object, or put it
back in libgcc. (Having it in libgcc doesn't prevent using other
personality routines for outher languages.) 
Linking in libsupc++ is dangerous -- and, from what you say, still
imposes an unncessary cost on Java programs.
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