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Re: [RFC] Replace Java with Go in default languages
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Alec Teal <a dot teal at warwick dot ac dot uk>, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:24:19 +0000
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Replace Java with Go in default languages
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On 11/13/2013 10:56 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
> At least we don't need a Java source code frontend, no? Just keeping
> the bytecode compiler and GIJ should be enough? That way we can
> strip the classpath copy of everything that isn't needed, thus not
> provide a Java library. Reduces testing coverage of GCJ to almost
> zero, but ...
Eh? We don't even have a Java source code frontend. In a GCC
build we compile everything from bytecode.
Andrew.