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
