Re: Merging String with Classpath

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at email dot byu dot edu>]

Followup: Has anyone had a chance to look at this patch?

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2002-q1/msg00699.html

Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> OK to commit both mainline and 3.1 branch?  I have done a general review
> of the String code, adding documentation and a few new 1.4 methods from
> Classpath (hence the stub java.util.regex classes).  I also added
> support for one-to-many capitalization changes made when Sun moved to
> Unicode 3.0.  Some of the files have quite a few changes to match the
> method order and formatting of Classpath; for those files, it may be
> easier to read the patched version of the file instead of the diff
> output.
> 
> I tested that this builds on the 3.1 branch, i686-pc-linux-gnu, and
> successfully compiled a "Hello, world" program with it (my first time to
> ever actually build and run gcj, because I used a different box than my
> usual cygwin...)
> 
> 2002-03-09  Eric Blake  <ebb9@email.byu.edu>
> 
>         * gnu/gcj/convert/SpecialCasing-2.txt: New file.
>         * scripts/unicode-muncher.pl: Remerge with Classpath.
>         * scripts/MakeCharTables.java: Update to incorporate changes to
>         CharData.java.
>         * include/java-chartables.h: Regenerate.
>         * gnu/java/lang/CharData.java: Ditto.
>         * java/lang/CharSequence.java: Remerge with Classpath.
>         * java/lang/Character.java: Ditto.
>         * java/lang/natCharacter.cc: Ditto.
>         * java/lang/StringBuffer.java: Ditto.
>         * java/lang/natStringBuffer.cc: Ditto.
>         * java/lang/String.java: Merge with Classpath.
>         * java/lang/natString.cc: Ditto.
>         * gnu/gcj/runtime/StringBuffer.java:  Update to match
>         java.lang.StringBuffer.
>         * gnu/gcj/runtime/natStringBuffer.cc: Ditto.
>         * Makefile.am (ordinary_java_source_files): Add unimplemented
>         stubs for java.util.regex, to compile String.
>         * java/util/regex/Matcher.java: Ditto.
>         * java/util/regex/Pattern.java: Ditto.
> 
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