Re: [PATCH, libjava/classpath]: Fix overriding recipe for target 'gjdoc' build warning

Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Aug 2015 09:24:06 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.java.patches,gmane.comp.gcc.patches
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Tom Tromey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jeff> In the past this has stalled on issues like how will asynch-exceptions
> Jeff> be tested and the like.
>
> It seems to me that either there is some other language which needs this
> -- in which case that language ought to have testing for the feature --
> or the feature is only used by gcj, in which case it doesn't matter.
>
> Of course is!=ought; but relying on gcj and libjava to provide this
> small amount of testing seems like a bad cost/benefit tradeoff.

Go does use asynchronous exceptions, and has test cases that rely on
them working.

Ian