On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 12:40 -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > >> From: Per Bothner <per@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >> To: GCC Mailing List <gcc@xxxxxxxxxxx>, java@xxxxxxxxxxx > >> Subject: Re: GCC SC request about ecj > >> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:59:58 -0700 > >> > >> Richard stallman write last night: > >> > >> I agree to the use of the Eclipse front end to generate > >> Java byte codes. > >> > >> Note this does not mean importing Eclispe code into the gcc source or > >> release tree. We need to decide on a practical way to have people > >> grab a compatible version of ecj. > > > > From the above e-mail, it looks as if gcj will shortly be linking in ecj > > as its front end. With this, gcj will be able to handle 1.5 constructs. > > Depends what you mean by "linking". The plan is for the gcj "driver" > to invoke "ecj" as a separate program, instead of currently invoking > "jc1". When compiling source to native, it would invoke ecj followed > by jc1. > > I.e. ecj is not going to be linked into the same executable as other > applications, though of course it will normally be linked in with libgcj > or some other Free Classpath-base Java run-time. (For bootstrapping, > people can use any working java.) Apologies; it was an unfortunate turn of phrase. I was merely trying to refer to the fact that, now ecj will be used by gcj, it will be able to handle the 1.5 stuff, giving us two compilers with support. As I doubt it is worth waiting on jikes (unfortunately, development there seems to be largely at a standstill), this means we can shift over to a single Classpath again. As far as I know, Tom Tromey has this largely working, so I guess it's just a case of adding the finishing touches and committing it to svn trunk. Cheers, -- Andrew :-) Please avoid sending me Microsoft Office (e.g. Word, PowerPoint) attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html If you use Microsoft Office, support movement towards the end of vendor lock-in: http://opendocumentfellowship.org/petition/ "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics' respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html public class gcj extends Freedom implements Java { ... } -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath/attachments/20060602/7c9e685a/attachment.pgp
