Re: Report on GCJ as packaging tool for SWT applications

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Øyvind" == Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com> writes:

Øyvind> - I'm using java.util.prefs, this does not appear to 
Øyvind> be supported. My attempts to extract java.util.prefs 
Øyvind> from my JRE rt.jar failed miserably. 
Øyvind> - Ditto for java.util.regex

java.util.prefs is in Classpath.  We could import it trivially.
However, my impression is that it isn't finished, so I've been holding
off on importing it.

java.util.regex still isn't written.  The kaffe folks ended up using
gnu.regex with some wrappers, but we can't do that for licensing reasons.
Still, if your application is GPL, you could do that.

Øyvind> Compilation aborts, so I don't know if this is a complete list
Øyvind> of my showstoppers.

Please submit a PR.  It would be best for us if it included a small
test case showing the bug; otherwise it becomes much harder to
reproduce the bug (especially once you consider that it might be quite
some time before anybody looks at it ...)

Øyvind> A minor issue: I couldn't find a way to turn off the warning below
Øyvind> (-Wno-unreachable-bytecode did not work).
Øyvind> ....
Øyvind> org/eclipse/swt/graphics/ImageData.java:2378: warning: unreachable bytecode from 2061 to before 2064

Yes.  I had a patch to add a flag to suppress this warning, but it was
rejected.  I don't think any such flag will be forthcoming.

Tom