GCJ 3.2 for Win32: Updated Snapshot

Fri Dec 13 07:05:00 GMT 2002

Jeff Sturm writes:
 > On 2002年12月13日, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Jeff Sturm writes:
 > > > On 12 Dec 2002, Tom Tromey wrote:
 > > > > Jeff> That is what -fno-assume-compiled was for, as I understand it.
 > > > > Jeff> However it doesn't work at this time.
 > > > >
 > > > > I think it never worked.
 > > >
 > > > I looked at the code. I think it can be useful; see the example below.
 > > > Would you be interested in patches to make it work?
 > >
 > > I have some patches to make -fno-assume-compiled work. I certainly
 > > could send them along if there's interest.
 > 
 > As do I. I've rebuilt most of libgcj and several applications with
 > -fno-assume-compiled for testing.
 > 
 > One sticky problem is the unwind info. The Utf8Const+1 addressing gcj
 > uses to store its catch_type doesn't work well with PIC and the
 > PE_indirect encoding. Did you find a solution?
No, I didn't. Most of the work was just finding the places in libgcj
that didn't exepct a constant pool index and fixing them.
It sound like maybe you got further than I did.
Andrew.