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Re: Compiling SUN-JRE
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Elmar Haneke <Elmar dot Haneke at gmx dot de>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:36:05 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Compiling SUN-JRE
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Elmar Haneke wrote:
> Is there any known reason preventing doing so (besides license issues)?
It won't work. Gcj makes assumptions about the layout of core classes
(class objects, strings, arrays, etc.) and the Sun classes are likely to
be too different. Also the native support is absent for e.g. sun.*
classes.
Jeff