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RE: generic type support
- From: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
- To: <tromey at redhat dot com>,"Geert Bevin" <gbevin at uwyn dot com>
- Cc: <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:39:57 +0100
- Subject: RE: generic type support
> The gcj .java front end needs serious work. Sometimes I
> daydream about somehow using the jikes front end instead;
> that might be the most efficient route to fixing all our bugs :-/
I was surprised to find that GCJ has a frontend at all.
Why?
It seems like this problem has been thoroughly put to bed by e.g.
Jikes, javac, etc.
Come generics, GCJ would only need to support it at a bytecode level.
Øyvind