RFC: Nuke xref code in GCJ

Wed Mar 2 10:13:00 GMT 2005

Ranjit Mathew writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Quite a bit of code in the current GCJ front-end is
 > controlled with "flag_emit_xref". However, the GCJ
 > driver program does not accept "-fxref" saying that
 > it is only valid for C++/ObjC++. If you try to use
 > "-fxref" with C++, the compiler says that the switch
 > '-fxref' is no longer supported. :-/
 > 
 > So we have these dead code blocks all over the place
 > that impede understanding and unnecessarily bloat the
 > source.
 > 
 > I propose to remove all of the code for "flag_emit_xref",
 > including xref.{c,h}.
 > 
 > Comments?
I have no particular objection; I have never looked at the code, and I
don't know what it does.
Andrew.