Re: [PATCH, libjava/classpath]: Fix overriding recipe for target 'gjdoc' build warning

On August 20, 2015 6:08:25 PM GMT+02:00, Andrew Haley <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 08/20/2015 05:03 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>> The issue is that we're still supporting a version of OpenJDK/IcedTea
>where
>> there is no previous version (6).
>
>Surely OpenJDK 6 can build itself.  And in the unlikely event of an
>entirely new architecture which has No OpenJDK we'd have to grab an
>old GCJ and build it with that.
>
>If GCJ is included as part of GCC but is not maintained and tested, it
>will soon rot.  That isn't an option IMO.

You only need a byte code interpreter on the target, no? No need for having native code in the first stage? So gij, witten in C++ is enough?

GCC basically carries the source load of a complete java (bytecode) stack just to make the bootstrap use native code in the first stage!?

Richard.

>Andrew.