Stable release?

Andrew Haley aph@pasanda.cygnus.co.uk
Sat Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2000


> From: Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.berkeley.edu>
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:22:04 -0800
> 
> 
> I guess I don't understand the problem here. Isn't the Java-specific
> portion of EGCS maintained by people *on this list*? What, then, is
> the problem with making branded versions of EGCS/LIBGCJ available to
> people on the GCJ website?

If it were just the Java specific parts, there wouldn't be any
problem.  However, gcc is not just a Java compiler, so any blessed
compiler would need to be fully functional for all its front ends to
be useful.

> Also keep in mind that almost all of the bugs we're likely to run
> into are in libgcj, NOT EGCS!

That is not my experience.

Andrew.


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