libjava status on Solaris 8/Intel and IRIX 6.5

Tue Mar 19 16:14:00 GMT 2002

Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Surely it would be better to use the sjlj exceptions rather than 
> > -fcheck-references? -fcheck-references is going to be really slow, while 
> > sjlj only adds overhead to "try" blocks.
>>Yes it would, but it's not always possible to use sjlj exceptions
>because the whole compiler must be configured this way and C++
>suffers. It's a bettter choice for libgcj, though.
>
Wouldn't it be possible to have the C++ compiler use sjlj exceptions 
when "#pragma java_exceptions" is in effect?
regards
Bryce.