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Re: i2p liberated! [Fwd: GCJ support is on the way]
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org, classpath at gnu dot org, jrandom at i2p dot net
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:44:34 -0600
- Subject: Re: i2p liberated! [Fwd: GCJ support is on the way]
- References: <1129819342.10379.163.camel@localhost.localdomain>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>> The first is a bug in GCJ (or maybe GNU Classpath, haven't tested
>> on Jam or Kaffe yet) - when working with a java.util.Calendar, not
>> all of the fields were being set correctly when they should be:
According to Sven, this bug was fixed a while back in Classpath.
It wasn't back-ported to 4.0.x. For 4.1 it is waiting on my resource
merge patch, which is sitting here needing a little more
testing... also it is unclear if it ought to go in, given the current
slushy state of the GCC tree.
>> * 3) prng problems
>> We gobble random bits like crazy. To get a functional system, I
>> had to disable our PRNG pool (which pulls data out of
>> java.security.SecureRandom) and enable the weak PRNG (which pulls
>> data out of java.util.Random). This is not necessarily
>> entirely GCJ's fault, but more of an issue with the OS which GCJ
>> doesn't hide.
Could you file this in bugzilla?
Tom