>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Green <green@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Anthony> I know people have talked about separating libgcj from gcc in Anthony> the past. Yeah, it is a good idea. I'm sorry for not backing Tom F. when he brought it up internally. I thought that we'd have problems with the C++ ABI, but it occurs to me now that splitting the RPMs and breaking the ABI are different issues. There's no reason to assume that they are related. Anthony> I think this will be particularly important if we manage to Anthony> get something like gcjwebplugin with the new whitelist Anthony> feature into FC6. We may want to push out GUI and security Anthony> updates on a much more frequent basis than is reasonable for Anthony> gcc. I'm convinced. Once we switch to ecj I think we should go even further. We should make -findirect-dispatch the default and we should push C++-ABI-breaking changes. The only difficulty here is that frysk uses the C++ ABI. Tom