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

On 14/07/16 18:12, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> snip...
> 
>> At a very high level, you should be aware of a general belief that GCJ's
>> life is limited.  There's been various calls to deprecate it.  So
>> spending a lot of time optimizing GCJ's output may not be the best use
>> of your skills :-)
> 
> Unless things have changed since it was last discussed, the plan was
> for it to be deprecated in GCC 6 and removed in 7. If that's the case,
> these changes may sadly not see a release.
> 
> It does seem that no-one has bitten the bullet of removing it yet though.

It's on my list.  The first thing to do before removing the sources
is to change the top-level autoconf and automake scripts not to resurse
into the gcj scripts, but my automake-fu is rather rusty.

Andrew.