Tom Tromey writes: > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Andrew> Having gcj depend not only on ASM but also on a *specific version* of > Andrew> ASM is intolerable. If gnu.bytecode will do the job, we should use > Andrew> it. > > I suppose it would be best to import some bytecode library source into > Classpath's tools subdirectory. Then we'd be insulated from upstream > changes. Yay static linking! > > Ideally we could just import the ASM sources. I thought this idea was > rejected, but I can't find a link. I'd like to revisit this, since > this is the simplest way to solve the problem. > > It would also be easy to just put the right asm.jar on an ftp site > somewhere, and have a script to download it. I already checked in a > similar script (to gcc svn) to make it easy for GCC developers to get > ecj. > > Failing that we can import GNU Bytecode and switch to that. FWIW the > only reason this is my last choice is the amount of work involved. One thing that occurred to me today: we could use class loader magic to detect the version of ASM and then do the Right Thing. Eww... Andrew.
