I'm new

Thu Nov 12 11:15:00 GMT 1998

>>>>> ">" == ma haibing <mah@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> writes:

>> I downloaded egcs-1.1b, I could not find any file called gcj or
>> something alike. Did I downloaded a wrong version? Or please tell
>> me which directory or file to have a look.

The sources are in gcc/java. `gcj' is just the name of the resulting
executable.
I don't think the java compiler is in egcs 1.1. I think you'll have
to get egcs from the cvs repository to see the java front end. Maybe
I'm wrong? I don't really pay attention to the egcs release cycle.
>> Are you saying in the short run, cygnus will only support JNI, and
>> no further commitment has made for C++?

No, in fact I'm saying the opposite: we currently have C++ support
working (that is, `native' methods can be written in a natural way in
C++). We don't currently have JNI support.
>> By the way, will gcj support packages like java.lang.*,
>> java.util.*, java.awt.* etc.?

We currently have, with some minor exceptions, java.lang, java.util,
and java.io. We also have a few other random things (e.g., a couple
classes in java.lang.reflect, but not all of them). We don't have
java.awt.
I don't really know what other libraries we are planning to write.
Of course you're always free to implement them yourself.
Tom