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Re: Reconsidering gcjx
- From: Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd dot de>
- Cc: GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:19:34 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Reconsidering gcjx
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Andrew Haley dixit:
> > 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.
Just keep the current state then - maybe in a separate frontend
only used for bootstrapping, sharing some code with the final,
class-only, frontend. And expand it if needed for ecj.
bye,
//mirabile
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