From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28517 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2010 11:35:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 28369 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Oct 2010 11:35:27 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,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; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:35:18 +0000 Received: from int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.21]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9PBZHej022988 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:35:17 -0400 Received: from zebedee.pink (ovpn-113-25.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.25]) by int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9PBZEoq007981; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:35:16 -0400 Message-ID: <4CC56B72.5080500@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:35:00 -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: Paulo Pinto CC: java@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Status of the GJC References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact java-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-10/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 On 10/22/2010 09:44 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I tried to find out more information about the current state of GJC > in the GCC web site, but to no avail with the latest news being from > September 2009. > > Is it still being developed, or only in maintenance mode? 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. Andrew.