From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27572 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2010 09:30:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 27564 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Oct 2010 09:30:52 -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; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:30:44 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9Q9UgSY001419 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:30:42 -0400 Received: from zebedee.pink (ovpn-113-106.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.106]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9Q9ULJS032341; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:30:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4CC69FA6.4010706@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:30:00 -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: Mark Wielaard CC: Harpal Grover , java@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Status of the GJC References: <4CC56B72.5080500@redhat.com> <1288085192.13083.50.camel@springer.wildebeest.org> In-Reply-To: <1288085192.13083.50.camel@springer.wildebeest.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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/msg00029.txt.bz2 On 10/26/2010 10:26 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 17:56 -0400, Harpal Grover wrote: >>> 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? > > There was a project to create a Common Virtual Machine Interface which > has some interesting pointers. And Andrew Hughes made enough progress on > it to get JamVM to work against it. This project is currently not very > active, but seems a good starting point: > http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/CVMIDiscussion > http://fuseyism.com/openjdk/cvmi/ Hmm. I would have thought it made more sense to get gcj working with the Sun JDK VM interface. I think we would have done it that way to begin with, but the JDK VM interface was secret. Andrew.