From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23331 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2011 09:32:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 23323 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Sep 2011 09:32:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_GC,TW_SV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (HELO mail-qy0-f182.google.com) (209.85.216.182) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:32:39 +0000 Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so1091873qyk.20 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:32:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.20.14 with SMTP id d14mr1191019qcb.61.1315819958286; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:32:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.74.81 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:32:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E6D571C.8000903@mindspring.com> References: <4E6D571C.8000903@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:32:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Why GCJ won't load my plugin when compiling bytecode? From: Bryce McKinlay To: Alan Eliasen Cc: java@gcc.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: 2011-09/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Alan Eliasen wrot= e: > On 09/09/2011 04:24 PM, Bryce McKinlay wrote: >> >> Modern versions of gcj only compile .class files to object code. gcj >> doesn't directly compile Java source code, nor generate bytecode. >> (early versions of gcj did do these things, but it was changed years >> ago) > > =A0 =A0 =A0Is this a permanent decision? =A0Is there any intention to mak= e gcj > compile from java source code again? > > =A0 Can anyone give me pointers to where this was decided upon and announ= ced? > =A0I'm curious to see the discussion. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2007-01/msg00027.html http://gcc.gnu.org/java : January 8, 2007 We've merged the gcj-eclipse branch to svn trunk. The merge changes gcj to use the Eclipse compiler as a front end, enabling all 1.5 language features. This merge also brings in a new, generics-enabled version of Classpath, including some new tools. This new code will appear in GCC 4.3. June 6, 2006 RMS approved the plan to use the Eclipse compiler as the new gcj front end. Work is being done on the gcj-eclipse branch; it can already build libgcj. This project will allow us to ship a 1.5 compiler in the relatively near future. The old gcjx branch and project is now dead.