Re: libgcj_bc.so not embedded

[Andi Vajda <andi at osafoundation dot org>]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Andrew Pinski wrote:

> On 4/7/07, J.C. Pizarro <jcpiza@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sure? Why GCJ depends on C++ of GCC?
>
> Because part of the libgcj library is written in C++ :).  GCJ's
> runtime library is written in Java, C, and C++ and C++ code can call
> Java code via the CNI interface which was created even before JNI was
> designed :).  GCJ does support JNI now too but GCJ was the first Java
> implementation to support native libraries even before Sun did.

And, I might add in reply to an earlier message, CNI is the other major reason 
to use gcj. It makes it possible to treat a body of Java code like any other 
C/C++ library out there. gcj makes Java code usable and accessible to the 
non-Java world. This is where the static linking requirements keeps coming 
from.

Andi..