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[wwwdocs] Some more news items for GCJ
- From: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>
- To: GCJ Patches <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 14:42:08 +0530
- Subject: [wwwdocs] Some more news items for GCJ
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Hi,
This patch adds some more news items to the GCJ home
page based on the suggestions provided by Tom:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-05/msg00066.html
It also removes extraneous links to LWN.net as suggested
by Gerald.
OK to commit?
Thanks,
Ranjit.
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Ranjit Mathew Email: rmathew AT gmail DOT com
Bangalore, INDIA. Web: http://rmathew.com/
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Index: ChangeLog
from Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@gcc.gnu.org>
* index.html: Add some more back-dated news entries.
Index: index.html
===================================================================
--- index.html 2006-05-14 11:05:19.000000000 +0530
+++ index.html 2006-05-14 14:28:52.000000000 +0530
@@ -83,17 +83,107 @@ and <code>javax.security.cert</code> sup
<!-- News entries start here -->
<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>May 1, 2006</b>
+</td><td>
+The May 2006 issue of Linux Journal contains the article "<a
+href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8757";>Embedded Java with
+GCJ</a>" by Gene Sally.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>April 26, 2006</b>
+</td><td>
+Andrew Haley has merged in a <a
+href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2006-q2/msg00100.html";>patch</a>
+that eliminates conservative scanning of static data and considerably speeds
+up garbage collection in many cases (for example, halving the time spent in
+garbage collection when running <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/";>Eclipse</a>).
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>April 17, 2006</b>
+</td><td>
+Tom Tromey has <a
+href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-04/msg00046.html";>announced</a> the
+availability of two experimental Just-In-Time (JIT) interpreters for GCJ based
+on <a href="http://www.southern-storm.com.au/libjit.html";>libjit</a> and <a
+href="http://llvm.org/";>LLVM</a> respectively. The source code for these
+JITs is available via the "gcj-jit" module of the <a
+href="http://sources.redhat.com/rhug/source.html";>rhug CVS repository</a> (<a
+href="http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcj-jit/?cvsroot=rhug";>CVSweb
+interface</a>).
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>April 4, 2006</b>
+</td><td>
+<code>fastjar</code> has been removed from the GCC source tree and made into
+<a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fastjar";>a separate project</a>.
+The GCJ build process now requires an external tool for creating JARs - it
+searches for a tool named either <code>jar</code> or <code>fastjar</code>
+during configuration and reports an error if it is unable to find such a tool.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>March 15, 2006</b>
+</td><td>
+David Daney has merged in a <a
+href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2006-q1/msg00289.html";>patch</a> that
+adds the new <code>-freduced-reflection</code> option to GCJ. This option
+prevents GCJ from generating most of the reflection metadata for classes
+resulting in smaller binaries. There are some caveats to using this option
+though - please read the GCJ manual for the implications of using this option.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
<b>March 9, 2006</b>
</td><td>
Mark Wielaard has imported <a
-href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/";>GNU Classpath</a> 0.90 into GCJ.
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/";>GNU Classpath</a> 0.90 (<a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20060306.html";>release
+notes</a>) into GCJ.
</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">
<b>February 8, 2006</b>
</td><td>
Mark Wielaard has written "<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/171139/";>A
-look at GCJ 4.1</a>" for <a href="http://lwn.net/";>LWN.net</a>.
+look at GCJ 4.1</a>" for LWN.net.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>January 16, 2006</b>
+</td><td>
+Mark Wielaard has imported <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/";>GNU Classpath</a> 0.20 (<a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20060113.html";>release
+notes</a>) into GCJ.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>November 17, 2005</b>
+</td><td>
+Mark Wielaard has imported <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/";>GNU Classpath</a> 0.19 (<a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20051102.html";>release
+notes</a>) into GCJ.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>October 12, 2005</b>
+</td><td>
+The October 2005 issue of Red Hat Magazine contains the article "<a
+href="http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/java/";>The state of
+Java on Linux</a>" by Tom Tromey.
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<b>September 23, 2005</b>
+</td><td>
+Tom Tromey has imported <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/";>GNU Classpath</a> 0.18 (<a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20050906.html";>release
+notes</a>) into GCJ.
</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">
@@ -104,7 +194,10 @@ href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/";>GNU Classpath</a> into the
GCJ build in such a way that it becomes <a
href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2005-05/msg00202.html";>much easier</a> to
-import the latest GNU Classpath into GCJ.
+import the latest GNU Classpath into GCJ. This particular import brings in GNU
+Classpath 0.17 (<a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20050715.html";>release
+notes</a>).
</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">
@@ -112,7 +205,7 @@ import the latest GNU Classpath into GCJ
</td><td>
Mark Wielaard has written "<a
href="http://lwn.net/Articles/130796/";>GCJ - past, present, and
-future</a>" for <a href="http://lwn.net/";>LWN.net</a>.
+future</a>" for LWN.net.
</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">
@@ -151,7 +244,7 @@ to enable libjava to be built by default
<tr><td valign="top">
<b>November 22, 2004</b>
</td><td>
-We're pleased to announce that the gcj binary compatibility branch has
+We're pleased to announce that the GCJ binary compatibility branch has
been merged to the trunk. This work includes a new ABI which allows
precompiled code to follow the binary compatibility rules of the Java
programming language.