Question of the status of GCJ

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Marco Trudel wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Mike Purdy wrote:
>>> Thank you Andrew. 
>>> This is interesting.  Does the OpenJDK allow native compilation?
>>
>> No.
>
> But it would be possible with (relatively) less work. I have written a 
> Java source code to Eiffel source code compiler using the OpenJDK 
> classes for the standard library. I have mapped all Java language 
> constructs and implemented the runtime far enough so that simple SWT 
> applications can be compiled (kind of "proof of concept").
> There is a good chance that I can find someone continuing the work on 
> it the next half year. I'm hoping that it will then be usable with 
> real applications and also for Linux/Mac.
> If you're interested, the website is http://jaftec.origo.ethz.ch/
>
Thanks, Marco, that's an interesting use of the OpenJDK class library.

cheers,
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