Re: gcj, libjava status on darwin.

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Andreas Tobler wrote:
> 
> Stan Shebs wrote:
> > Adam Megacz wrote:
> >
> >>Speaking of gcj on Darwin, what ever happened to the issue whereby the
> >>GC wouldn't work on Darwin because the Darwin libpthread doesn't allow
> >>you to send a signal to a specific thread?
> >>
> >>I heard that Apple is now distributing gcc 3.1 binaries, and they
> >>include a gcj compiler -- does it lack thread support, or has this
> >>issue been resolved?
> >
> > We're not including the gcj compiler.  The way Apple builds GCC for
> > Mac OS X is somewhat idiosyncratic, and we haven't spent any time
> > on getting gcj into that machinery (in fact I've only just started
> > on g77).
> 
> But at least one guy from apple asked me about the status of gcj &
> libjava on darwin: Steve Naroff. So I guess it could be a future issue?

Steve can expand on this, but yeah, we're researching it.  BTW,
thanks very much for getting it going!  There's a good chance that
your work will become part of a future OS X release!

Stan