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RE: generic type support
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
- Cc: <tromey at redhat dot com>, "Geert Bevin" <gbevin at uwyn dot com>,<java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:06:56 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: RE: generic type support
- References: <41D1051F31A2674C99E41CA28EE734980A1F83@isp-ex2k.intellimade.net>
=?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8yvind=5FHarboe?= writes:
> > The gcj .java front end needs serious work. Sometimes I
> > daydream about somehow using the jikes front end instead;
> > that might be the most efficient route to fixing all our bugs :-/
>
> I was surprised to find that GCJ has a frontend at all.
>
> Why?
>
> It seems like this problem has been thoroughly put to bed by e.g.
> Jikes, javac, etc.
>
> Come generics, GCJ would only need to support it at a bytecode level.
I on't know about that. I would have thought that there are
tremendous opportunities for optimization with the added type
information.
Andrew.