First public libgcj release

Wed Apr 7 09:19:00 GMT 1999

On 7 Apr 1999, Tom Tromey wrote:
> We are very pleased to announce the public release of libgcj, the
> run-time component of GCJ, the GNU Compiler for Java. This allows you
> to build executable programs from Java source, without needing any JDK
> components.

Great work, thank you.
One slightly odd question - is the .class generator a backend in the usual
sense or does it work differently?
I'd find it quite nice to be able to compile programs in other languages
into Java bytecode. Bits of Pascal, for example, might map onto Java
quite nicely..
Matthew.