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Re: [RFC] Replace Java with Go in default languages
- From: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat 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 12:29:27 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Replace Java with Go in default languages
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.
Don't we drop in ecj.jar and compile that to native code? Ah, seems to
be an optional feature. Which means only very little pieces of libgcj should
be required to bootstrap if we remove that feature without also dropping
in a classpath.jar?
Richard.
>
> Andrew.
>