porting libgcj to PalmOS

Sat Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2000

>>>>> "Kresten" == Kresten Krab Thorup <krab@daimi.au.dk> writes:

Kresten> As far as I can see, there are quite alot of problems to
Kresten> overcome to make gcj work on the pilot.
Kresten> 3) All the basic java libraries (java.*) are quite
Kresten> intertwined, and require alot of basic libc stuff; which
Kresten> is not available on PalmOS. Thus, it would be a lot of
Kresten> work to create a "trimmed down" version.
This is something we've wanted to be able to do: configure libjava in
various configurations to omit pieces of code that are not wanted for
a particular build. We don't have a real design here; currently we
can omit java.net in a rather hacky way, but I don't think we want to
go much further down that path. One idea we've had is to use "section
GC" in the linker to omit code at link time; in some situations that
will probably be good enough.
Tom