Re: Patch: g++ -vs- Java exceptions, take 2

[Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>]

>>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

Gerald> It don't think that's suiteable for the release branch, where
Gerald> we only want bugfixes and safety is the utmost concern.

This patch actually makes g++/java more safe, because it eliminates a
cause of errors.

Anyway, for Java, we would like to do a new release in the 2.95.x
series.  Currently basically all of our users are forced to use the
cvs gcc, because the 2.95.2 gcj/libgcj are missing many important
features that people want.  This leads to a lot of problems due to
instability in the cvs gcc.  I'm frequently asked why we don't just
release our own gcc that is known to be stable... putting a new gcj
into 2.95.3 is an attempt to answer that question in a reasonable way.

In case it matters, the particular patch in question is required for
our JNI implementation to work correctly.

Tom