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Re: Stable release?
- To: mdw at cs dot berkeley dot edu
- Subject: Re: Stable release?
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at pasanda dot cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Date: 16 Feb 2000 18:27:05 -0000
- CC: tromey at cygnus dot com, java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
> From: Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.berkeley.edu>
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:22:04 -0800
>
>
> I guess I don't understand the problem here. Isn't the Java-specific
> portion of EGCS maintained by people *on this list*? What, then, is
> the problem with making branded versions of EGCS/LIBGCJ available to
> people on the GCJ website?
If it were just the Java specific parts, there wouldn't be any
problem. However, gcc is not just a Java compiler, so any blessed
compiler would need to be fully functional for all its front ends to
be useful.
> Also keep in mind that almost all of the bugs we're likely to run
> into are in libgcj, NOT EGCS!
That is not my experience.
Andrew.