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Re: GCJ adoption and improving our "PR"
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <kevin dot hendricks at sympatico dot ca>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:04:52 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCJ adoption and improving our "PR"
- References: <F92B4296-8EFD-11D8-99D0-0003938E434C@sympatico.ca>
Kevin B. Hendricks writes:
>
> That way, I could focus on *using it* instead of focusing on how to
> hack it all together just to see if it works.
>
> Is something like that simply not possible?
That is the focus of the "New ABI" that we keep talking about.
It'll be possible to run existing jarfiles without altering them,
although you'll probably want to do a precompilation step to make
running faster.
There's still the issue of getting free versions of all the libraries,
of course.
Andrew.