From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32437 invoked by alias); 15 Apr 2010 12:03:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 32311 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Apr 2010 12:03:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_GC,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:03:45 +0000 Received: from int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.18]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3FC3gZ5013000 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:03:42 -0400 Received: from zebedee.pink (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3FC3fqC017136 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:03:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4BC7009D.1060605@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:07:00 -0000 From: Andrew Haley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-4.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Notes from the GROW'10 workshop panel (GCC research opportunities workshop) References: <003b01cadbde$21913eb0$64b3bc10$@com> <20100414154431.GR540@codesourcery.com> <4BC609AA.7080503@moene.org> <4BC61C34.7070106@starynkevitch.net> <4BC634F1.6030906@starynkevitch.net> <20100415115737.GA32020@hector.lesours> In-Reply-To: <20100415115737.GA32020@hector.lesours> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00365.txt.bz2 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. Andrew.