Hello, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > This is not a proposal to remove the Java frontend nor is it leading up > to that. It is a proposal to not build the frontend by default, putting > Java in the same category as Ada and Objective C++. The main argument > in favor of this proposal is twofold: 1) building libjava is a large > component of gcc bootstrap time, and thus a large component in the > amount of time it takes to test changes; 2) it is in practice very > unusual for middle-end or back-end changes to cause problems with Java > without also causing problems for C/C++, thus building and testing > libjava does not in practice help ensure the stability of the compiler.
The argument against disabling java as a default language always was that there should be at least one default language that requires non-call exceptions. I recall testing many patches without trouble if I did experimental builds with just C, C++, and Fortran, only to find lots of java test suite failures in a complete bootstrap+test cycle. So the second point is, IMVHO, not really true. Is it possible to build and test java without all of libjava? Ciao! Steven
