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Re: gcc web site note
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <gp at suse dot de>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org, Gcc Patch List <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 26 Jan 2004 15:17:31 -0700
- Subject: Re: gcc web site note
- References: <400F9230.3090403@mail.ru><Pine.LNX.4.58.0401221102010.18652@lifschitz.suse.de><87brou2yjd.fsf@fleche.redhat.com><Pine.LNX.4.58.0401262317480.3574@lifschitz.suse.de>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Pfeifer <gp@suse.de> writes:
[ 3.4 updates for java ]
Gerald> Nevertheless, good stuff!
Thanks, I corrected the things you pointed out.
Can I commit the appended? We can add more things as we find them.
In particular I'm still waiting for information on how the Windows
port has improved.
Tom
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<h3>Java</h3>
<ul>
- <li></li>
+ <li>Compiling a .jar file will now cause non-.class entries to be
+ automatically compiled as resources.</li>
+ <li>libgcj has been ported to Darwin.</li>
+ <li>Jeff Sturm has adapted Jan Hubicka's call graph optimization
+ code to gcj.</li>
+ <li>libgcj has a new <code>gcjlib</code> URL type; this
+ lets <code>URLClassLoader</code> load code from shared
+ libraries.</li>
+ <li>libgcj has been much more completely merged with <a
+ href="http://www.classpath.org/">GNU Classpath</a>.</li>
+ <li>Class loading is now much more correct; in particular the
+ caller's class loader is now used when that is required.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">Eclipse 2.x</a> will run
+ out of the box using <code>gij</code>.</li>
+ <li>Parts of <code>java.nio</code> have been implemented.
+ Direct and indirect buffers work, as do fundamental file and
+ socket operations.</li>
+ <li><code>java.awt</code> has been improved, though it is still
+ not ready for general use.</li>
+ <li>The HTTP protocol handler now uses HTTP/1.1 and can handle
+ the POST method.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fortran</h3>