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Re: First public libgcj release

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> writes:

Matthew> One slightly odd question - is the .class generator a backend
Matthew> in the usual sense or does it work differently?

It works differently.

Matthew> I'd find it quite nice to be able to compile programs in
Matthew> other languages into Java bytecode.  Bits of Pascal, for
Matthew> example, might map onto Java quite nicely..

Pascal, maybe.  But in general mapping gcc's internals onto Java
bytecodes is non-trivial, especially if you care about performance at
all.

Tom