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Web: gcj news update
- From: Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>
- To: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:17:51 -0400
- Subject: Web: gcj news update
2004-07-16 Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay@redhat.com>
* news.html: Move old news here.
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+<b>July 16, 2004</b>
+</td><td>
+GCJ in the press! The July issue of Linux Journal
+features an article on building the Eclipse IDE to native code using GCJ:
+<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7413">
+Eclipse goes native</A>. The July issue of Doctor Dobbs Journal also
+features an article (not available online) on GCJ and the Compiled Native
+Interface (<A href="../onlinedocs/gcj/About-CNI.html">CNI</A>).
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
<b>March 9, 2004</b>
</td><td>
Thanks to Wes Biggs and the other GNU Regexp authors, Mark Wielaard
@@ -108,97 +119,6 @@
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-<b>September 3, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
-Jeff Sturm has adapted Jan Hubicka's call graph optimization code to gcj.
-This code improves gcj's method inlining abilities with support for
-out-of-order methods and inter-class method calls, along with improved
-code size heuristics. It is enabled by default when compiling at -O3.
-</td></tr>
-
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>August 4, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
-Gary Benson from Red Hat has released
-<a href="http://people.redhat.com/gbenson/naoko/">Naoko</a>: a subset
-of the <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/rhug/">rhug</a> packages
-that have been repackaged for eventual inclusion in Red Hat Linux.
-Naoko basically comprises binary RPMS of Ant, Tomcat, and their
-dependencies built with gcj.
-</td></tr>
-
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>August 2, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
-Tom Tromey, Andrew Haley and others from Red Hat win the
-<a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2003-08/msg00004.html">
-Fast Free Eclipse Prize</a>.
-</td></tr>
-
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>August 1, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
-A team of hackers from Red Hat has released RPMS for a version
-of <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">Eclipse</a>, a free software IDE
-written in Java, that has been compiled with a modified gcj.
-You can find more information
-<a href="http://sources.redhat.com/eclipse/">here</a>. We'll be
-integrating the required gcj patches into cvs in the near future.
-</td></tr>
-
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>July 31, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
-Andrew Haley has checked in a major patch to the
-<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/">tree-ssa branch</a>
-that allows us to convert entire functions to trees when reading
-from <code>.class</code> files. This is an important step towards
-better high-level optimizations for Java.
-</td></tr>
-
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>July 30, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
-Thanks to Andreas Tobler and Jeff Sturm, libgcj is now built by
-default for Darwin. This work is available on the cvs trunk, and
-will show up in GCJ 3.4.
-</td></tr>
-
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>July 28, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
-Michael Koch has announced the first (0.0.1) release of
-<a href="http://www.nongnu.org/gcjwebplugin/">gcjwebplugin</a>.
-This is a plugin to allow execution of applets in web browsers
-like Mozilla, Konqueror, and Opera. Currently it is still a
-proof-of-concept.
-</td></tr>
-
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>May 14, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
-<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/">GCC 3.3 has been released</a>.
-This release includes many bug fixes, support for <code>assert</code>,
-and JDBC 3.0 support in <code>java.sql</code>
-and <code>javax.sql</code>, among other things.
-</td></tr>
-
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>January 3, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
-Jeff Sturm implemented libffi closures for SPARC so that libgcj's
-bytecode interpreter is now available on SPARC Solaris hosts.
-</td></tr>
-
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>January 1, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
-The January 2003 issue of Linux Journal contains the article
-<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4860">
-<cite>Compiling Java with GCJ</cite></a> by Per Bothner.
-</td></tr>
-
-<tr><td valign="top">
</td><td>
<a href="news.html">Less recent GCJ news</a>
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+<b>September 3, 2003</b>
+</td><td>
+Jeff Sturm has adapted Jan Hubicka's call graph optimization code to gcj.
+This code improves gcj's method inlining abilities with support for
+out-of-order methods and inter-class method calls, along with improved
+code size heuristics. It is enabled by default when compiling at -O3.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>August 4, 2003</b>
+</td><td>
+Gary Benson from Red Hat has released
+<a href="http://people.redhat.com/gbenson/naoko/">Naoko</a>: a subset
+of the <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/rhug/">rhug</a> packages
+that have been repackaged for eventual inclusion in Red Hat Linux.
+Naoko basically comprises binary RPMS of Ant, Tomcat, and their
+dependencies built with gcj.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>August 2, 2003</b>
+</td><td>
+Tom Tromey, Andrew Haley and others from Red Hat win the
+<a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2003-08/msg00004.html">
+Fast Free Eclipse Prize</a>.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>August 1, 2003</b>
+</td><td>
+A team of hackers from Red Hat has released RPMS for a version
+of <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">Eclipse</a>, a free software IDE
+written in Java, that has been compiled with a modified gcj.
+You can find more information
+<a href="http://sources.redhat.com/eclipse/">here</a>. We'll be
+integrating the required gcj patches into cvs in the near future.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>July 31, 2003</b>
+</td><td>
+Andrew Haley has checked in a major patch to the
+<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/">tree-ssa branch</a>
+that allows us to convert entire functions to trees when reading
+from <code>.class</code> files. This is an important step towards
+better high-level optimizations for Java.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>July 30, 2003</b>
+</td><td>
+Thanks to Andreas Tobler and Jeff Sturm, libgcj is now built by
+default for Darwin. This work is available on the cvs trunk, and
+will show up in GCJ 3.4.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>July 28, 2003</b>
+</td><td>
+Michael Koch has announced the first (0.0.1) release of
+<a href="http://www.nongnu.org/gcjwebplugin/">gcjwebplugin</a>.
+This is a plugin to allow execution of applets in web browsers
+like Mozilla, Konqueror, and Opera. Currently it is still a
+proof-of-concept.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>May 14, 2003</b>
+</td><td>
+<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/">GCC 3.3 has been released</a>.
+This release includes many bug fixes, support for <code>assert</code>,
+and JDBC 3.0 support in <code>java.sql</code>
+and <code>javax.sql</code>, among other things.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>January 3, 2003</b>
+</td><td>
+Jeff Sturm implemented libffi closures for SPARC so that libgcj's
+bytecode interpreter is now available on SPARC Solaris hosts.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>January 1, 2003</b>
+</td><td>
+The January 2003 issue of Linux Journal contains the article
+<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4860">
+<cite>Compiling Java with GCJ</cite></a> by Per Bothner.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
<b>December 27, 2002</b>
</td><td>
It is now possible to run the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse</a> IDE