From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: bbaker@softhorizons.com
Cc: java@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: About gcj present and future
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F8510A.9000004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130117111719.579461eawscpyj4s@www.kattare.com>
On 01/17/2013 07:17 PM, bbaker@softhorizons.com wrote:
>
> GCJ has several cool features. The important one to me is CNI. A CNI
> interface to OpenJDK would be a positive step for the credibility of
> CNI and hence GCJ. Not to mention it would be extremely useful to
> OpenJDK.
>
> I'm a programmer, but I honestly have no idea the level of effert
> required for such a feature, or if it is even in the realm of
> realistic. I suspect there are both a brute-force-almost-impossible
> method and an extremely clever 10K SLOC method.
You wouldn't get CNI exactly, but it would certainly be possible
to get close. The C++ and Java type systems aren't really compatible,
so you'd have to be pretty devious.
Andrew.
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2013-01-17 19:17 bbaker
2013-01-17 19:29 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
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2013-01-08 5:26 Ernesto
2013-01-08 9:53 ` Andrew Haley
2013-01-08 17:46 ` Ernesto
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2013-01-08 18:06 ` Andrew Haley
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