From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Tromey To: Java Announcements Subject: New stuff Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:05:00 -0000 Message-id: <87hff9yqgm.fsf@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00000.html It's been a long time since the last libgcj release. And, while we still can't do a release (because we need to synchronize with a gcc release), we thought it might be nice to send out an update on what has changed since libgcj 2.95.1. * Kresten Krab Thorup donated a Java bytecode interpreter, so now you can run a mix of compiled and interpreted code. Currently the interpreter only works on x86. * Warren Levy wrote a pure Java implementation of java.math.BigInteger based on classes contributed by Per Bothner. * Andrew Haley wrote java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace() -- this is very cool, and it even demangles the manged Java method names. * Tom Tromey added JNI support, which is currently in testing. He also finished the reflection support, including Method invocation. * Andrew Haley also added setjmp/longjmp (aka sjlj) exception support, so exceptions should work basically everywhere now. * ... plus we have the usual long list of bug fixes and less major enhancements. Finally, we have some other cool stuff in the pipeline (people who follow the patch lists know what I mean); I'll send more email as it goes in. Tom