Re: Reconsidering gcjx

[Kevin Handy <kth at srv dot net>]

Andrew Haley wrote:

> Tom Tromey writes:
> > >>>>> "Thorsten" == Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> writes:
> > 
> > >> ecj is written in java.  This will complicate the bootstrap process.
> > 
> > Thorsten> Why not keep enough support in jc1 to bootstrap ecj?
> > 
> > We don't know how much of the language that would be.
>
> And we can't tell _a priori_.  As I understand it, the intention is to
> use upstream sources, and they will change.
>
>  
Don't you just need to have a functional JVM, and .class (.jar) files 
for ecj
and all its libraries? That would change the question to what language
the JVM is written in.