Re: Status of the GJC

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

On 10/26/2010 10:26 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 17:56 -0400, Harpal Grover wrote:
>>> It's mostly in maintenance mode.  The compiler itself is pretty solid, but
>>> the Classpath runtime library isn't being developed very much.  We really
>>> need to port gcj to use the OpenJDK runtime libraries, which would make
>>> gcj an excellent product, but so far no-one has had the time to do it.
>>
>> I think that's an excellent idea.
>>
>> How does one start helping out with that?
> 
> There was a project to create a Common Virtual Machine Interface which
> has some interesting pointers. And Andrew Hughes made enough progress on
> it to get JamVM to work against it. This project is currently not very
> active, but seems a good starting point:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/CVMIDiscussion
> http://fuseyism.com/openjdk/cvmi/

Hmm.  I would have thought it made more sense to get gcj working with
the Sun JDK VM interface.  I think we would have done it that way to
begin with, but the JDK VM interface was secret.

Andrew.