Re: [PATCH] Delete GCJ

Eric Gallager <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Sep 2016 20:19:49 -0400

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On 9/5/16, Bernd Edlinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05.09.2016 17:13, Andrew Haley wrote:
>  > As discussed.  I think I should ask a Global reviewer to approve this
>  > one.  For obvious reasons I haven't included the diffs to the deleted
>  > gcc/java and libjava directories.  The whole tree, post GCJ-deletion,
>  > is at svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcj/gcj-deletion-branch
>  > if anyone would like to try it.
>  >
>  > Andrew.
>  >
>  >
>  > 2016-09-05  Andrew Haley  <[email protected]>
>  >
>  > 	* Makefile.def: Remove libjava.
>  > 	* Makefile.tpl: Likewise.
>  > 	* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
>  > 	* configure.ac: Likewise.
>  > 	* configure: Likewise.
>  > 	* gcc/java: Remove.
>  > 	* libjava: Likewise.
>
>
> I think you can remove libffi as well, right?
>
>


I think Go uses libffi as well; for further discussion see bug 11660:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11660
(people there seem to think ObjC uses libffi, too, but I haven't
noticed it doing that myself)