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Re: Standalone use of gcj
- From: fernando at lozano dot eti dot br
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, Angelo dot Borsotti at alcatel dot it
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:17:21 GMT
- Subject: Re: Standalone use of gcj
- Reply-to: fernando at lozano dot eti dot br
Hi,
> > In the meantime, being able to use gcj as a pure compiler +
> > it minimum runtime support (garbage collector, and primordial
> > loader, I guess) would be a *GREAT* thing.
>
> No. The core libraries depend on native methods, and the interface
> between the core classes and these methods is system dependent. The
> implementation of the core classes and the underlying native code is
> not specified by the Java standard. However, the VM depends on these
> exact implementation details.
It looks to me he wishes something like IBM Jikes. It is just a compiler,
provides no VM and no standard libraries. Is jikes somewhat tied to Sun JVM and
class libraries?
[]s, Fernando Lozano