On 04/15/2010 01:07 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: >> On 04/15/2010 12:57 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: >>> >>> Of course I do know about gcj. But I never met any person using it, >>> and I don't know about any person or project really using it (as an >>> example, I am not sure than any Debian or Fedora package is compiled >>> with gcj into a native executable; do you know of many Debian >>> packages compiled with GCJ specifically?). >> >> Lots of them were, but with the availability of OpenJDK and its better >> standard compatibility people are moving packages to it. There's >> nothing much wrong with the gcj compiler itself, although it does >> generate rather bulky code, but the Classpath libraries on which its >> runtime library depends are not completely Java compatible. > > So our computers are spending hours and hours testing Java as part of > the normal bootstrap+regtest cycle -- and nobody even uses it? :-) > > (Couldn't resist, sorry! :-)
Fair enough, have your joke, but that's not what I wrote! And BTW, these days many (most?) of the bugs the gcj test suite finds are bug in gcc that the other test suites didn't find. And BTBTW, I would love to find time to use the OpenJDK library in gcj. gcj is still AFAIK the most portable implementation of the Java language. Andrew.