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Re: gcj and jikes
- From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- To: bormisoft at digitizeit dot de
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 08:46:11 -0700
- Subject: Re: gcj and jikes
- References: <200305061524.h46FOpCA032626@s02.canserver.net>
bormisoft@digitizeit.de wrote:
I'm just occasionally following this list and read the thread about
integrating jikes. As far as I understand one of the main reasons for
integrating jikes is to be able to support generics.
No, generics is one of the main reasons for *not* (yet) integrating
Jikes. The reasons for integrating Jikes is it is supposedly has
fewer bugs and cleaner design.
> Has anybody thought of using the internal eclipse compiler? I
> remember reading somewhere, that they already have preliminary
> generics support.
Interesting. They really do have an indepdendent compiler?
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