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

Sat Apr 17 02:28:00 GMT 2004

Andrew Haley wrote:
>Much remains to be done. Some of the important missing things are:
>>* The compiler must output assertions so that at runtime incompatible
> class changes are detected. At the moment it just emits warnings to
> the console.
>>I'm not sure what you mean by this. The runtime should be able to detect 
incompatible class changes automatically. I don't forsee any additional 
compiler output, besides the usual class metadata, will be needed.
>* We need to control the export of symbols from libraries.
>>It'll be easy just to make most of the symbols private. But, everything 
else (eg C++ changes for CNI) needs to be in place before we can do that.
>* We need to fix mangling so we can use generics.
>>This one should probably be in the "beyond 3.5" category. It will be a 
little while before we have to worry about generics.
Regards
Bryce.