generic type support

[Øyvind Harboe]

> The gcj .java front end needs serious work.  Sometimes I 
> daydream about somehow using the jikes front end instead; 
> that might be the most efficient route to fixing all our bugs :-/

I was surprised to find that GCJ has a frontend at all.

Why? 

It seems like this problem has been thoroughly put to bed by e.g. 
Jikes, javac, etc.

Come generics, GCJ would only need to support it at a bytecode level.

Øyvind