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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.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-17 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-17 19:17 bbaker
2013-01-17 19:29 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-01-08  5:26 Ernesto
2013-01-08  9:53 ` Andrew Haley
2013-01-08 17:46   ` Ernesto
     [not found]   ` <CAOOf6hyQR4yLqR=89__cVr12U6tYzQW0POR0cwy=EUFX=fjk3g@mail.gmail.com>
2013-01-08 18:06     ` Andrew Haley

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