SV: Adding another configuration feature to libjava for arm-elfmetal configurations

Thu May 1 20:32:00 GMT 2003

Anthony Green writes:
 > On Thu, 2003年05月01日 at 10:11, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Maybe a better idea than a fork would be some scripts that walk over
 > > the sources making modifications. We would then have some sort of
 > > stylized comments that indicate where the exclusions are made. It
 > > would then be a drudge job to go over the sources adding the marks.
 > 
 > Keep in mind that it's more than just removing things. Sometimes the
 > method APIs look the same, but the behaviour is different - so the
 > annotations would have to be relatively expressive. 
Oh, indeed. Easy enough to do, though.
 > Although at that
 > point, why not just maintain a bunch of patch files
Very cumbersome, and the maintenance programmer can't easily see
what's going on. Bad, bad idea.
 > that are applied to
 > the sources to generate j2me profile configurations? We're basically
 > talking about a fork now.
We are, so let's not go down that road.
Andrew.