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Re: gcj and jikes

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Cedric Berger <cedric at berger dot to>
Cc: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 12:29:05 +0100
Subject: Re: gcj and jikes
References: <20030502202813.52620.qmail@web41610.mail.yahoo.com><3EB2E66E.7000506@bothner.com><3EB62F1F.3030109@berger.to>

Cedric Berger writes:
 > Per Bothner wrote:
 > 
 > > That is not what my concern is.  My question is: are there or are
 > > there likely to be any other Free Java compilers besides Jikes that
 > > are likey to have/get better support for the new features?
 > 
 > Maybee a stupid question, but why not using classfile format as the
 > communication protocol between the frontend and GCJ backend?

We can (and indeed do) do this.  However, the classfile format makes
it harder to generate good code.  In particular, we'd have to reverse
engineer type info for generics.

Andrew.

References:
- Re: gcj and jikes
  - From: Joerg Brunsmann
- Re: gcj and jikes
  - From: Per Bothner
- Re: gcj and jikes
  - From: Cedric Berger

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