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Fri Oct 9 13:32:00 GMT 1998

> One thing I'm curious about is how gcj will play with Java 1.2. This
> is a good question: how does one use the 1.2 runtimes with gcj?

You won't be able to (unless you do a fair bit of hacking).
gcj will "play" with its own run-time and (smallish) standard libraries,
> What issues need to be addressed?

Tons, both legal and technical. The technical issues of mixing and
matching run-times (i.e. gjc fundamental classes + Sun's non-fundamental
class) can probably be worked out, but we intend to stay of out it,
because of the legal issues. (We can't depend on Sun's classes for
our releases anyway - and neither can GNU.)
	--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner