From: Bryce McKinlay <bmckinlay@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org>,
Sal <svferro@gmail.com>,
java@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GCJ with OpenJDK Java API instead of GNU Classpath
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 13:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7230133d0905070650g76564129m7824df694091dace@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A02E572.7080003@redhat.com>
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>
>> There's actually no need to do a wholesale replacement of
>> everything. GCJ already overrides quite a number of classes from
>> GNU Classpath with its own versions (including Object IIRC).
I agree. GCJ-OpenJDK could be built following a very similar approach.
>> Quite a number of packages in Classpath are just pure Java and are
>> used as is in GCJ. This even extends to Swing, where the native JNI
>> code from Classpath is used (GCJ usually prefers CNI).
>>
>> It really depends what you want the end result to be. Having some
>> hybrid with all the packages is probably an easier goal than trying
>> to pass the TCK with the result... ;)
>
> Huh? I was assuming Java compatibility was the goal.
Sure, it won't be perfect. But this approach gets you ~90% of the
compatibility with ~10% of the effort!
Bryce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-07 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-06 20:43 Sal
2009-05-07 9:17 ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-07 11:45 ` Bryce McKinlay
2009-05-07 13:25 ` Andrew John Hughes
2009-05-07 13:43 ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-07 13:50 ` Bryce McKinlay [this message]
2009-05-07 20:24 ` Sal
2009-05-08 8:04 ` Robert Schuster
2009-05-08 10:08 ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-07 16:28 ` Mark Wielaard
2009-05-08 13:47 ` Robert Schuster
2009-05-07 14:31 Chris Gray
2009-05-07 15:29 ` Andrew John Hughes
2009-05-07 16:25 ` Mark Wielaard
2009-05-07 16:32 ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-07 17:10 ` Mark Wielaard
2009-05-07 17:20 ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-07 17:24 ` David Boreham
2009-05-07 17:34 ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-07 17:44 ` Mark Wielaard
2009-05-08 0:22 ` Andrew John Hughes
2009-05-08 10:13 ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-08 11:00 ` Mark Wielaard
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