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Re: gcj and jikes
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: "Erik Poupaert" <erik dot poupaert at chello dot be>
- Cc: "Per Bothner" <per at bothner dot com>, "gcj" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 25 Apr 2003 15:00:59 -0600
- Subject: Re: gcj and jikes
- References: <POEIJGMGPFPGFHAGKFHAEEGKCHAA.erik.poupaert@chello.be>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Poupaert <erik dot poupaert at chello dot be> writes:
Erik> If I understand this right, making it easier on people or
Erik> otherwise more attractive to contribute would go a long way in
Erik> solving outstanding technical issues. In such case the point w/r
Erik> to integrating with Jikes, would probably be moot anyway.
Sure, but this would probably require rewriting most of parse.y to
start with. The parser itself is ok (not perfect, but good); the
analysis phases are less than ok. The data structures used in the
analysis are fairly opaque, at least in my opinion.
Erik> By the way, does anybody know how Mauve testscripts are supposed
Erik> to be written? I've looked at several, and they all look
Erik> different. Is there some kind of standard?
You mean formatting-wise? Nope, no standard.
Tom