RFC: BC-ABI and Old Verifier

Mon Jan 10 14:15:00 GMT 2005

Ranjit Mathew writes:
 > 
 > How about making either -findirect-dispatch the default
 > *or* resurrecting the old verifier for the non-BC-ABI
 > case?
That's what we do.
 > The current situation would cause users unnecessary pain
 > (e.g. PR 5537) so it should be resolved either one way
 > or the other, or we risk having to listen to lots of
 > user complaints when GCC 4.0 is released.
 > 
 > With the BC-ABI merge, a lot of the old verifier was
 > disabled/crippled (e.g. subroutine verification):
 > 
 > http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/gcc/java/verify.c.diff?r1=1.66&r2=1.67&only_with_tag=MAIN
 > 
 > If we can't quite make BC-ABI the default yet, we
 > should revert verify.c to revision 1.65 (just before
 > the BC-ABI merge).
Pre-approved. There's no reason not to revert the old verifier to its
pre-merge state; it was only a temporary kludge.
Andrew.