On 20 Mar 2006 11:47:34 -0700 Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Stuart" == Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Stuart> What's the status on the whole ecj-as-gcc-frontend thing? > > It is still being discussed by the GCC Steering Committee. I'm > hopeful that we'll get the go-ahead and be able to have this in GCC > 4.2. >
I had no idea that it was this close actually. My naive impression was that the license would still be troublesome, but I guess GCC being under a GPL+exception (IIRC) solves this... > Stuart> Since gcj > Stuart> and ecj are pretty much the only maintained Free java compilers at > Stuart> this point, seems to me that's the only blocker to making the generics > Stuart> branch the primary development trunk and adopting the new language > Stuart> features wholesale... > > Yes, I want to kill the generics branch (by merging it in :-) this > year. With some luck, by the summer. > > Tom Sounds fantastic; if the ecj/gcj thing is good for 4.2, then the time for this merge is a lot closer than I thought. -- Andrew :-) Please avoid sending me Microsoft Office (e.g. Word, PowerPoint) attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Support OpenDocument instead. Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html public class gcj extends Freedom implements Java { ... } "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics' respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman The views expressed above are representative of my own personal opinions, and not necessarily those of the University of Sheffield.
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