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Re: JVM Port
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: frangro at us dot ibm dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:01:07 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: JVM Port
<<Hi. I'm considering doing a port of the GCC compiler to the Java Virtual
Machine - particularly for compiling C code to work on the JVM. Do you
know of any open projects working on that and if not would you have any
objections to me continuing investigation on that?
>>
It's technically possible, but really does not make much technical sense.
If you want to compile C code to work on the JVM, you really need to write
a translator at the appropriate level (e.g. look at JGNAT as an example
of doing this for Ada).