From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20964 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2014 20:37:58 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 20952 invoked by uid 89); 4 Sep 2014 20:37:55 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: aibo.runbox.com Received: from aibo.runbox.com (HELO aibo.runbox.com) (91.220.196.211) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 20:37:53 +0000 Received: from [10.9.9.206] (helo=mailfront02.runbox.com) by bars.runbox.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPdmv-0005yz-Db for java@gcc.gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:37:49 +0200 Received: from 70-36-239-41.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net ([70.36.239.41] helo=toshie.bothner.com) by mailfront02.runbox.com with esmtpsa (uid:757155 ) (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) id 1XPdmd-0001tw-Jj for java@gcc.gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:37:31 +0200 Message-ID: <5408CD88.6070501@bothner.com> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 20:37:00 -0000 From: Per Bothner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: java@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GCJ ------ file type not supported by system References: <540034B0.4010701@redhat.com> <1409306247.25913.21.camel@nirvana.localdomain> <54043670.4070908@redhat.com> <1409568429.4242.1.camel@nirvana.localdomain> <54074227.5000104@redhat.com> <540756E6.4000804@bothner.com> <54081F39.5020205@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <54081F39.5020205@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-09/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 On 09/04/2014 01:13 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 03/09/14 18:59, Per Bothner wrote: >> On 09/03/2014 09:35 AM, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: >> (I don't believe Eclipse's compiler is as solid or complete, though that may be >> my bias from having worked with javac engineers. It's probably good enough for >> at least the initial stages of merging in OpenJDK classes.) > > Oh, OK. Most of the world I know about uses Eclipse for everything. The Oracle javac team are part of the group that designs languages changes, writes the language specification, and figure out the corner cases. They work closely with the people working on libraries, and the VM. The Eclipse compiler people are inherently going to have a problem keeping up. I have read that the Eclipse support for Java 8 features was pretty rushed, under-resourced, and barely done in time. If I ran Eclipse, I'd drop the compiler, and use OpenJDK javac, like NetBeans does. (Probably - there may be good reasons to keep ecj, but I suspect the biggest one is the one-time switch-over hurdle.) It wouldn't surprise me to see that happening. -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/