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Re: GCJ ------ file type not supported by system
- From: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
- To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Cc: Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <guille dot rodriguez at gmail dot com>, "classpath at gnu dot org" <classpath at gnu dot org>, "java at gcc dot gnu dot org" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:06:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: GCJ ------ file type not supported by system
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On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 10:59 -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> On 09/03/2014 09:35 AM, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> > What would you like me to do? How can I help ?
>
> More useful than updating Classoath per se would be creating
> a version of GCJ that uses OpenJDK's javac for compiling to bytecodes,
> and OpenJDK classes (or at least mostly so). This is a big project,
> but has a chance of being useful and maintained.
>
> There may be licensing issues that should be considered before
> charging full steam ahead.
>
> I'm out of the loop, so I don't know if anything like that is happening.
This is happening (or has already). The code has been written by one of
the GCC GSoC students (now at Oracle) Dalibor Topic:
"Integrating OpenJDK's javac bytecode compiler into gcj "
https://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2007-gcc/downloads/detail?name=Dalibor_Topic.tar.gz&can=2&q=
Someone integrating that into mainline would be welcome I think.
Cheers,
Mark