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

On 08/12/2015 10:24 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 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.
If you're comfortable with Go at this point and we have mechanisms in 
place to ensure Go only gets built on platforms that support Go, then I 
think we should go forward with replacing GCJ with Go.

Jeff