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Re: Reconsidering gcjx
- From: Adam Megacz <megacz at cs dot berkeley dot edu>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:48:53 -0800
- Subject: Re: Reconsidering gcjx
- References: <m3d5iewn0r.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> I think our technical approach should be to have ecj emit class files,
> which would then be compiled by jc1. In particular I think we could
> change ecj to emit a single .jar file.
I (and David Crawshaw) have actually done this.
http://tool.ibex.org/
The Eclipse compiler is great. I really like it.
Plus, lots of tools are designed to use Java bytecode as an
intermediate format (however ill-suited it may be for that task).
Making bytecode the primary input format for gcj would make coupling
such tools to gcj a less out-there-in-left-field sort of thing.
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