Re: Removing primlib files from libclasspath?

[C. Brian Jones]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 09:59, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> after merging in libclasspath into Kaffe, primlib's missing LINK_* 
> functions broke static builds for riscos. I tried to figure out what 
> primlib does briefly, and gave up rather quickly as the files in 
> native/jni/classpath/primlib.[ch] seem to be rather void of explanatory 
> comments, unfortunately.
> 
> Grepping a bit around, it seems that it is unused in GNU Classpath, 
> except for a single test, so I'd like to propose removing the primlib 
> files from the sources along with the test. The files have seen just 
> cosmetic and warning cleanup patches since their introduction.
> 
> CC:ing Brian as he introduced them into GNU Classpath.

Haha, funny it was actually John Keiser who introduced them.  I show up
because they were moved by me from their original location.  I'm
guessing this library was never used as John originally intended.  Looks
like some primitive type wrapper library.

Brian
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