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Re: c/c++ to bytecode
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: tsuraan <tsuraan at gmail dot com>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 05:29:14 +0000
- Subject: Re: c/c++ to bytecode
- References: <68509ba0b204ba35e5ce6932b283379c@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> <45128481.9080102@kaffe.org> <84fb38e30612022053q3e03242cr8808a3667aa6050a@mail.gmail.com>
tsuraan writes:
> > Finally, Trent Waddington wrote a jvm backend for gcc, available at
> > http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~cristina/uqbt.html#gcc-jvm
>
> Aside from RMS's objections about this making licensing tricky, is
> there any reason this hasn't been folded into the main gcc code?
As well as RMS's objections,
It's not been submitted
It's highly experimental
No-one has volunteered to maintain it
I'm sure other users could think of more reasons.
> I hate to think that gcc is being technically impaired by political
> issues, but it really looks like that's what happened here.
Oh. I would hate to think that gcc was being politically impaired by
technical issues, but there ya go...
Andrew.