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Re: [RFA 0/3] Fix various bugs found by static analysis
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Eli> Shouldn't we wait for some time? I mean, gcj may have been removed,
Eli> but that doesn't mean all of its installations have been deleted, or
Eli> that no one out there uses the last release, and will use them for
Eli> some time.
Nobody has used it seriously in years. GCC dropping it is just the
final chapter, but really it died long ago. Fedora (not sure about
other distros) stopped shipping it a while ago and there's no critical
(or even useful) free software tool written using it. So, I think it's
safe to delete now. In the unlikely even that someone is using it, they
can debug with gdb 7.11.
Also, FWIW, it's not outrageously bad to debug gcj-compiled code as if
it were C++. You lose a little bit (String printing primarily) and you
have to use C++ names for things, but I think otherwise it works ok.
Tom