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Re: CHANGELOG and documentation


Tom Tromey wrote:

> Anthony> I created a NEWS file a long time ago, but we don't maintain
> Anthony> it.  We probably should.
>
> I think we definitely should.  I think we should also add news entries
> to the news section of the front page.

Hows this?

  [ bryce ]

===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/java/libgcj/libjava/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 NEWS
--- NEWS        1999/08/08 14:06:19     1.3
+++ NEWS        2000/01/19 22:57:55
@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@

 * libgcj now includes a bytecode interpreter.

+* Support for specifying java system properties, both compiled in to the
+application and at runtime via an environment variable.
+
+* Complete JDK 1.1 reflection support, including invocation.
+
+* Support for setjmp/longjmp (sjlj) exception handling has been added, as an
+alternative to the existing range-table based mechanism.
+
+* Throwable.printStackTrace() has been implemented.
+
+* Runtime.loadLibrary() has been implemented, and Class.forName() can now
+dynamically load shared objects in order to find a requested class.
+
 New in libgcj 2.95:

 * First public release



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