From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14516 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2013 19:29:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 14471 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jan 2013 19:29:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_GC 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; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:29:17 +0000 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r0HJTGog016813 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:29:16 -0500 Received: from zebedee.pink (ovpn-113-80.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.80]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r0HJTFKw021101; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:29:15 -0500 Message-ID: <50F8510A.9000004@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:29:00 -0000 From: Andrew Haley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bbaker@softhorizons.com CC: java@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: About gcj present and future References: <20130117111719.579461eawscpyj4s@www.kattare.com> In-Reply-To: <20130117111719.579461eawscpyj4s@www.kattare.com> 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: 2013-01/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 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.