porting libgcj to PalmOS

Sat Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2000

As far as I can see, there are quite alot of problems to overcome to
make gcj work on the pilot. (I did the original port which is
currently just a patch floating around along with prc-tools).
1) Constructors/destructors doesn't work on the palm platform as far
 as I know. This might not be too hard to fix, though.
2) The resulting libgcj library is likely to be quite large,
3) All the basic java libraries (java.*) are quite intertwined, and
 require alot of basic libc stuff; which is not available on PalmOS.
 Thus, it would be a lot of work to create a "trimmed down" version.
4) Finally, it is unreasonable to write meaningful java programs
 without a garbage collector.
If someone starts working seriously on it, I might able to be of some
help with bullet (1) above.
-- Kresten
 Kresten Krab Thorup "I like my eggs ploded"
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