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

Sat Apr 17 08:08:00 GMT 2004

Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
 > 
 > Andrew> Much remains to be done. Some of the important missing things are:
 > 
 > BTW, I'd like it if anything on this list not already in bugzilla
 > were filed there and then made a dependency of the BC ABI tracking
 > PR, aka http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12725
 > 
 > Andrew> * The compiler should no longer open class files referred to when
 > Andrew> compiling class files.
 > 
 > This makes sense for jit mode, but perhaps not for BC by default.
 > By default it might be nice to still get "can't find xxx" messages.
When compiling bytecode files? I can't really see the point, but
okay. 
In practice, just about every decent size jar I've ever downloaded has
weirdo references to com.foo.baz.notReallyUsedbutILeftItInAnyway.
Andrew.