Ping, as wasting 8 bytes of RAM isn't ignorable on embedded system. OK to trunk stage 1?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Tromey [mailto:tro...@redhat.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 21:32 > To: Jakub Jelinek > Cc: Joey Ye; p...@bothner.com; a...@redhat.com; H.J. Lu; gcc-patches; 'Ian > Lance Taylor' > Subject: Re: [PATCH, libgcc] Disable JCR section when java is not enabled > > Jakub> Given the state of gcj that it is now only rarely used and most > Jakub> people just use OpenJDK instead, wouldn't it be a good idea to > Jakub> just require that gcj code is linked using gcj driver or, if > Jakub> linked in any other driver, just using a special non-default > Jakub> option (-flink-jcr or similar), that would be automatically set > Jakub> by gcj driver, move this JCR stuff out of the normal crt* files > Jakub> and put it into crtjava*.o instead, and only link in if > Jakub> -flink-jcr is passed or gcj driver used? Or treat -lgcj as that > Jakub> magic switch? > > The irony of the situation is that this would require significantly more work > than has gone into gcj in the past N years. > > Jakub> Also, looking at crtstuff.c makes me wonder where are classes > Jakub> deregistered, there are only calls to _Jv_RegisterClasses, but > Jakub> never to to deregistration, wonder what happens if you dlclose a > Jakub> shared library with registered classes. > > I think we never implemented class GC for compiled classes, though it's hard > to remember. > > Tom
jcr_disable_non_java-130910.patch
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