libjava status on Solaris 8/Intel and IRIX 6.5

Tue Mar 19 16:26:00 GMT 2002

Andrew Haley 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?
>
We shouldn't make such a major, incompatible change to the CNI syntax 
because CNI is simple and works very well. But, I accept that something 
needs to be done if we really want to support MMU-less systems. Why 
wouldn't overloading operator "->" for Java types work?
> > As for platforms without memory management, well Java just isn't an
> > appropriate language.
>>That's outrageous.
>Not as outrageous as using -fcheck-references on a platform that has 
perfectly good hardware support for detecting null references! OK, I'll 
retract that comment, but please lets keep -fcheck-references only for 
platforms that really need it.
regards
Bryce.