WWW patch: Miscellaneous gcj FAQ updates

Gerald Pfeifer pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Thu Jun 20 08:08:00 GMT 2002


First of all, sorry for asking for further changes, even though several
of the problems here were not really introduced by this patch!

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Anthony Green wrote:
> 2002-06-20  Anthony Green  <green@redhat.com>
>
>  	* faq.html: Mention gccbug.

Sorry, but I have to reject this part of the patch.  In fact, the entire
entry should go.

The fact that gccbug was not mentioned previously alone shows why this
shouldn't be duplicated here; after all, that's what bugs.html is for!

> --- 139,151 ----
>         <h3><a name="1_5">1.5 Will gcj and libgcj work on my machine?</a></h3>
>         <dl>
>           <dd>
> !           Gcj and libgcj are known to work more or less with IA-32 and
> !           Sparc Solaris, Tru64 Unix, IA-32 FreeBSD, as well as IA-32,

SPARC.

> !           IA-64, Alpha, and PowerPC Linux.  It's also possible to

GNU/Linux. Also, I believe we should some notation which is closer to
what we regularily use, or actual target tripplets.

> --- 153,159 ----
>         <h3><a name="1_6">1.6 How can I debug my Java program?</a></h3>
>         <dl>
>           <dd>
> !           <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdb/">gdb 5.2</a>
>             includes support for debugging gcj-compiled Java programs. For more
>             information please read <a href="gdb.html">Java Debugging with gdb</a>.
>           </dd>

I believe we should link to the GDB web page here?

>             compiled code. It works pretty transparently: if a compiled version of a class is
>             not found in the application binary or linked shared libraries, the class loader
>             will search for a bytecode version in your classpath, much like a VM would. Be
> !           sure to build libgcj with the <tt>--enable-interpreter</tt> option to enable this
> !           functionality.</p>

Please use <code> instead of <tt>.

> !           <tt>--extdirs=</tt> entry in the GCJ manual for details.</p>

<code> (Also in a few other cases.)

Gerald
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