libjava status on Solaris 8/Intel and IRIX 6.5

Tue Mar 19 02:25:00 GMT 2002

Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > Tom Tromey wrote:
 > 
 > >Even with this I think it makes sense for us to make the change. It
 > >will take a lot of time and will be hard to maintain, but it seems
 > >necessary. I'd prefer to change g++, but I'd guess that will be hard
 > >to sell.
 > 
 > I disagree. We should not change CNI.
Because?
 > I'd prefer we fixed SJLJ exceptions for platforms where we can't
 > unwind signals.
That's a choice, but there are a lot of targets where C++ prefers the
unwinder, and on such targets libgcj won't work.
 > As for platforms without memory management, well Java just isn't an
 > appropriate language.
That's outrageous.
Andrew.