Re: Java > 1.5

[Brian Jones <cbjones1@gmail.com>]

Is gcj going to be archived and removed from gcc?  No one works on it right?

> On Aug 16, 2014, at 4:14 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 15/08/14 18:54, Ruben De Smet wrote:
>> Dear java@gcc.gnu.org list,
>>
>> I've gotten to compile some things with GCJ (hooray!) which don't run
>> fine (ooooh). If I don't come to run it on my own, I'll certainly file a
>> bug report or contact this list.
>>
>> I would like to avoid having to distribute a Java runtime to users, but
>> my teammate is writing code in Java 1.7. I read GCJ only understands 1.5.
>>
>> Is there any development going on for Java 1.7? Would it be a lot of
>> work to implement some Java 1.7 features? I would take it on me if needed.
>
> Right now there's not much prospect of that.  The problem is the class
> libraries, which would require a lot of work. The best prospect is to
> convert libgcj to use the libraries from OpenJDK, which would work,
> but again the conversion would take maybe 6 months for someone who
> knows gcj very well, along with some compiler changes.  It could be
> done, but there needs to be a compelling reason.
>
>> There were two things I noticed with my teammates code that were using
>> 1.7 features. @Override on interfaces and multi exception catch (like
>> catch (IOException | OtherException e) ).
>
> I'm sure it's possible.
>
> Andrew.