Re: (patch) hpjyg09: bcache optimizations

[Jim Blandy <jimb at cygnus dot com>]

>   > > 	While it is true that it is not tied to the microprocessor,
>   > > (and the placement of the macro is not ideal perhaps,) it is tied 
>   > > somewhat to the HP-UX platform in that :
>   > 
>   > Ahh.  That, I didn't know.  So it would be correct to put the flag in
>   > a file associated with a particular toolchain.
> Not in this case.  While HP's tools arrange (via pxdb) to avoid duplicates,
> other HP toolchains do not.
> 
> Short term none of the GNU toolchains on the PA remove duplicates.  That will
> likely change for the PA64 toolchain (dwarf2 + elf), but it is unlikely to 
> ever change for the PA32 toolchain (stabs + som).
> 
> In general, if we find ourselves tuning towards one particular
> toolchain, then we are probably going down the wrong road.

As it turned out, I rewrote the bcache so it works better.  I haven't
heard back from HP on this, but I suspect its overhead is now low
enough that they wouldn't have noticed it to begin with.  So, as
symtab maintainer, hpjyg09 is now dead, until I hear an explanation of
why the changes to the bcache were insufficient.