From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Wed Feb 10 1999 - 07:56:56 EST
On Feb 10, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> > For instance, one thing that Tim doesn't currently have the time to
>> > do, but for which your skill set puts you in a formidable position
>> > (I mean really), is to get the egcs front-end to run with Kaffe.
>> I'm not sure I'm skilled enough to do that. I have never been able to
>> learn enough about the internals of gcc :-(
> My understanding is that you don't need to know a whole lot.
> You just need to look at the assembly output gcj generates and how they
> do exceptions.
Sounds doable. I'll put this in my to-do list.
> However, this is not what is in reach. What it is reach is looking
> at the egcs generated code, understand how they do metadata, trampolines,
> synchronization and exceptions. All of which you understand. Then decide
> whether to change Kaffe's metadata/trampolines/exceptions or whether to
> change egcs. That's it. ;-)
Put that way, it even sounds easy :-D
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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