First public libgcj release

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On 7 Apr 1999, Tom Tromey wrote:

> Matthew> I'd find it quite nice to be able to compile programs in
> Matthew> other languages into Java bytecode.  Bits of Pascal, for
> Matthew> example, might map onto Java quite nicely..
>
> Pascal, maybe.  But in general mapping gcc's internals onto Java
> bytecodes is non-trivial, especially if you care about performance
> at all.

That's what I suspected.

Is this more because of the design of Java or of gcc?

Matthew.