Re: Patch: FYI: one more stab at PR 20056

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

On Feb 24, 2005, at 7:44 AM, Ranjit Mathew wrote:

> On 23 Feb 2005 11:53:32 -0700, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Ranjit> Would such an addition ("GNU Assembler for Java" or "gaj") be
> > Ranjit> welcome?
> >
> > Yes, definitely.
> >
> > I would prefer to see this done as part of the classpath tools
> > project.  You ("one") could write it in java and use gnu.bytecode or
> > ASM for the bytecode tweaking.
>
> In that case, wouldn't it be far simpler to talk
> to Jon Meyer to get Jasmin into Classpath
> tools?
>
> IMHO, GCJ should be a Free replacement
> SDK for the Java programming language and
> the JVM. So "gaj" should be a part of GCJ.

For sure, it should be included in the GCJ distribution. This would 
provide an easy way to write test cases for bytecode-related bugs 
without having to put class files in CVS. It could be developed as part 
of classpath-tools and then imported into GCJ, however - ie 
classpath-tools is the "upstream provider".

Archit Shah's rmic enhancements, which use ASM as the backend, should 
probably go into classpath-tools, so if this happens it should serve as 
a precedent both for using ASM and as an "upstream tool" to be imported 
into GCJ.

Regards

Bryce