Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

[Andrew Haley]

Michael Koch writes:
 > Am Mittwoch, 4. August 2004 12:45 schrieb Andrew Haley:
 > > Michael Koch writes:
 > >  > Am Mittwoch, 4. August 2004 10:27 schrieb Andrew Haley:
 > >  > > Well, that's the question: do we make Classpath harder to
 > >  > > debug / read in order to optimize the performance of some
 > >  > > unfree C compilers?
 > >  >
 > >  > It's not bad to support other compilers too but this should
 > >  > should not be used to make the code unreadable and hard to
 > >  > understand. If its hard to achieve better drop support for some
 > >  > compilers.
 > >
 > > We weren't talking about dropping any support: merely a performance
 > > decrease for some old unfree compilers.
 > 
 > As I understood Ingo this means dropping for him as the overhead is 
 > too much for him.

This is such a weird conversation!  Surely the bug is in the C
compiler that still doesn't inline.  gcc got inlining in 1988, I think
with version 1.20.

Andrew.