Status of the GJC

[Mark Wielaard]

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 17:56 -0400, Harpal Grover wrote:
> > It's mostly in maintenance mode.  The compiler itself is pretty solid, but
> > the Classpath runtime library isn't being developed very much.  We really
> > need to port gcj to use the OpenJDK runtime libraries, which would make
> > gcj an excellent product, but so far no-one has had the time to do it.
> 
> I think that's an excellent idea.
> 
> How does one start helping out with that?

There was a project to create a Common Virtual Machine Interface which
has some interesting pointers. And Andrew Hughes made enough progress on
it to get JamVM to work against it. This project is currently not very
active, but seems a good starting point:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/CVMIDiscussion
http://fuseyism.com/openjdk/cvmi/

Cheers,

Mark