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Re: Standalone use of gcj
- From: fernando at lozano dot eti dot br
- To: Angelo dot Borsotti at alcatel dot it, fernando at lozano dot eti dot br
- Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:10:38 GMT
- Subject: Re: Standalone use of gcj
- Reply-to: fernando at lozano dot eti dot br
Hi Angelo,
> to my knowledge jikes is an ordinary java-to-bytecode
> compiler. It is not a java-to-native or bytecode-to-native
> one.
>
> I needed a native one, better if a bytecode-to-native one
> accompanied with any runtime support libraries is needs.
> I do not need a VM (but of course would not mind if the
> tool has also one, as long as it does not use it when
> the classes are compiled ot native code).
So there's no way you'll be able to mix a compliler from one vendor (or free
software project) with the standard classes from another vendor. There's
allways a minimum run-time support needed by any compiler, and the Java specs
doesn't separete this from the standard classes.
[]s, Fernando Lozano