Andrew John Hughes wrote:
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From: Per Bothner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: GCC Mailing List <[email protected]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: GCC SC request about ecj
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:59:58 -0700
Richard stallman write last night:
I agree to the use of the Eclipse front end to generate
Java byte codes.
Note this does not mean importing Eclispe code into the gcc source or
release tree. We need to decide on a practical way to have people
grab a compatible version of ecj.
From the above e-mail, it looks as if gcj will shortly be linking in ecj
as its front end. With this, gcj will be able to handle 1.5 constructs.
What do people think of now beginning the merge of the generics branch
back on to HEAD? Given that both ecj and now gcj will support building
this, we could limit our requirements to these. Recent CVS has already
encountered problems building with older versions of gcj and jikes, and
this change would also allow us to remove these hacks from our code.
Thoughts?
I think it would be putting the cart before the horse.
Although we should definitely be thinking about doing it, I think it
would be better to wait until the GCJ infrastructure needed to build it
is ready to be committed to the GCC trunk.
Well that's my $0.02.
David Daney.
