Re: Status of the GJC
David Daney <[email protected]>
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On 10/25/2010 02:56 PM, Harpal Grover wrote: >> >> >> It's gcj. >> >> 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? > Get a copyright assignment in place for GCC and classpath so your patches can be accepted. Then start hacking away. The GCC and GCJ websites have a lot of information on various aspects of this process. After looking there, you can ask questions on [email protected]. David Daney