[RFC]: java inferior function call support

[David Carlton]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:35:54 -0500, Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> said:

> However, this problem (gcc bugzilla bug 6587) has been open since
> May of 2003. How long does gdb suggest end-users should wait to
> debug their code? :)

Beats me.  I don't quite understand how gcj and its corporate
sponsor(s?) allocate their efforts, to be honest; if I were working on
gcj, I would have pushed hard for that bug to be fixed.  I just wish
we weren't in a situation where gdb is requested to go out of its way
to support a broken compiler without a show of effort from people
working on the compiler side. :-(

> I am perfectly willing to put a FIXME statement that when gcc
> finally gets around to fixing this problem, the code can be dropped.

I can imagine a compromise like this might be the best idea.  But I'd
be a lot happier with it if we knew when the problem would get fixed.
(E.g. 3.4.0 will have it, 3.5.0 won't.)

David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com