------- Comment #5 from tromey at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-12-27 11:14 ------- The reason we did this is that, when we wrote libgcj, we wanted to be able to control various abi-changing things via command-line arguments. And, the best place to do much of the checking was in the libgcj configure script; many of the discoveries made here need to be known both to libgcj and to gcj at compile-time.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30292
