First public libgcj release

Wed Apr 7 09:23:00 GMT 1999

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> writes:

Matthew> One slightly odd question - is the .class generator a backend
Matthew> in the usual sense or does it work differently?
It works differently.
Matthew> I'd find it quite nice to be able to compile programs in
Matthew> other languages into Java bytecode. Bits of Pascal, for
Matthew> example, might map onto Java quite nicely..
Pascal, maybe. But in general mapping gcc's internals onto Java
bytecodes is non-trivial, especially if you care about performance at
all.
Tom