gcj on Windows ToDo List

[Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>]

Hi Marco,

Here is the MinGW ToDo list you sent me off list:

>> Between the two of you, could both of you figure out what my initial work
>> queue will be and prioritize it? I already know about Andrew's park() and
>> unpark() stuff as well as the three things that Marco mentioned:
>> 
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-09/msg00049.html
>
>I know of:
>1. Serialisation is broken
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28531
>2. Runtime.exec(String[] cmdarray, String[] envp) doesn't use envp
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29151
>3. shared is broken
>    maybe there's a bugreport from someone else
>4. Exceptions do no use DWARF
>    maybe there's a bugreport from someone else
>5. cygwin compilation is broken
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29476
>    threads don't work either. I think we should concentrate on mingw.
>6. JNI broken with certain libs
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29477
>    I can't provide a minimal example, the lib is closed source.
>7. using @sourcelist-file leads to wrong flag creation
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29772
>    Andrew, you told me I should tell you ;-)
>8. tls was changed and broke compilation of windows
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-10/msg01019.html
>    --disable-tls fixes it but still, this should be fixed

Does this still look correct? And am I doing this against 4.2
or 4.3? (I tried compiling 4.3 last night but it failed with
an unsatisfied dependency on MPFR on Fedore Core 5. I just tried
this for 10 min., though.)

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