gcj, libjava status on darwin.

Andreas Tobler toa@pop.agri.ch
Thu May 23 23:21:00 GMT 2002


Stan Shebs wrote:
> Adam Megacz wrote:
> 
>>Speaking of gcj on Darwin, what ever happened to the issue whereby the
>>GC wouldn't work on Darwin because the Darwin libpthread doesn't allow
>>you to send a signal to a specific thread?
>>
>>I heard that Apple is now distributing gcc 3.1 binaries, and they
>>include a gcj compiler -- does it lack thread support, or has this
>>issue been resolved?
> 
> 
> We're not including the gcj compiler.  The way Apple builds GCC for
> Mac OS X is somewhat idiosyncratic, and we haven't spent any time
> on getting gcj into that machinery (in fact I've only just started
> on g77).


But at least one guy from apple asked me about the status of gcj & 
libjava on darwin: Steve Naroff. So I guess it could be a future issue?

Regards,
Andreas





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