Setting up GCJ to cross compile to Tandem NSK

Ranjit Mathew rmathew@gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 10:11:00 GMT 2004


> There's probably a fair amount to do to port gcj to this platform.
> You'll have to port the garbage collector, the thread layer, and the
> other platform-specific native code.  This might be hard or easy
> depending on how similar your OS is to existing ports.  For best
> results (i.e., JNI support, interpreter support) you will need to port
> libffi (assembly hacking required).  On some platforms we can catch a
> SEGV and turn it into a NullPointerException; this also requires
> special code to be written for your target.

Some of the information (albeit slightly dated) can
be found in the section "Porting the GCJ runtime" of:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/java/docs.html

Ranjit.

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