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Re: GCJ Native Proposal



Sat, 30 Apr 2005 23:39:00 +0200, 
Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> wrote: 

> Yes, both -jbi and -bcabi are really bad choices because they are
> somewhat obscure technical terms that don't really help the users to
> know what is special about the package. In a future release the bcabi
> will also be the default abi used by gcj. And in cases where backwards
> (and forwards) compatability and seamless interoperability between
> native and interpreted byte code is wanted you will need to use this
> -findirect-dispatch technique always. And no, I am not proposing to use
> -indirect-dispatch as suggix :)
>
> IMHO the best suffix would be to just use -gcj for the natively compiled
> packages. That at least shows the user what the difference is and why
> the -gcj package is faster and less resource intensive. Because it was
> created using GCJ.

and -gcj is not technical?! ;-)

Why not just drop the suffix?

libant
libservlet2.4
and so on...

Maybe it's a stupid question, but can a C or C++ program call those
natively compiled libraries? Don't we need to generate headers? (now
everybody is aware that I don't know nothing about C and C++! :-D)

Cheers,

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