Re: Is gcj dead?
Andrew Haley <[email protected]>
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Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Andrew Haley <[email protected]> wrote: >> Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Andrew Haley <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Yuri wrote: >>>>> Last news in http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ are dated March 2007. >>>> Yes, we should update that. There hasn't been a lot of new gcj development, >>>> but it is maintained. >>>> >>>>> Also I submitted few PRs a month ago and there is no response at all. >>>> Which ones? >>> How about this one: >>> >>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40816 >> I am still rather nervous about that one, as it's an ABI change. > > Point taken. > In the long term this will prevent compilation of package such as VTK > on debian on arch such as HPPA. Really? That's all rather amazing. Is there no simple workaround? > On those the JAVA implementation is > GCJ. Hopefully by then OpenJDK-6 will compile on HPPA ... > Can you set bug as won't fix or something like that ? I should, I suppose. Andrew.