Re: [JAVA PATCH] Enable more array bounds check elimination

----- Original Message -----
> On 22/02/16 23:02, Roger Sayle wrote:
> > Please point me towards any relevant postings (of yours) on the subject of
> > gcj bounds check elimination, as I'd love to catch up on current thinking.
> 
> I'm not sure that there are any, really.  The discussions I can
> remember were all done in person, and I didn't get positive
> feedback about the idea of adding to the type system in GCC's
> middle end.
> 
> Incidentally, we have been talking about EOL for GCJ for some years
> now.  GCC 6 will very likely be the last GCJ.

Yes, I believe we agreed to regard it as deprecated in 6 and remove it
during the lifetime of 7 [0]. As such, this patch probably needs to
go to the 6 branch too if it's ever going to see the light of day.

> 
> Andrew.
> 
> 

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2015-q3/msg00041.html
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