[BC ABI] gcj-abi-2-dev-branch created

Fri Apr 16 21:02:00 GMT 2004

Per Bothner writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > 
 > > Much remains to be done. Some of the important missing things are:
 > 
 > * Documentation?
 > 
 > If this is to be a stable ABI it needs to be documented, with some
 > indication of what is implemented and what remains to be done.
Unquestionably. As it stands at the present time the interface is
scrappy and somewhat ad hoc, and not a real final candidate for
standardization. In particular, there are the address tables and the
offset tables and the constant pool, and there is functional overlap
between them.
 > Ideally there should be both an informal overview and a detailed
 > complete specification. The former might be a useful paper for
 > the Gcc developer's conference,
That's already in progress.
Andrew.