[RFA] boehm-gc for AIX

Tue Jan 29 07:55:00 GMT 2002

>>>>> Fergus Henderson writes:

Fergus> I'm talking about the case where you have a C program which does not
Fergus> use Java.
Fergus> I was suggesting that [*on those architectures where it is needed*]
Fergus> GCC would insert appropriate code to initialize the collector
Fergus> in main(). GCC couldn't tell when it sees main() whether or
Fergus> not the program uses Java via JNI. So it would need to do it
Fergus> for all programs, even those that don't use Java.
	I only am suggesting this for the case of gcj compiling main.
Jeff Sturm has a good argument why finding the roots for JNI is not
necessary or desirable.
David