why libgcj.jar

Wed Nov 7 05:26:00 GMT 2001

Why is there any java code in gcj at all?
Sun basically has a bunch of java bytecode, an interpreter that
knows what to do when a method is 'native', and some
platform dynamic libraries.
Why was not the approach taken where all of the Sun
bytecode was compiled into libraries that depended upon
Sun's underlying platform libraries. Then any user java code or
class byte code could be compiled into native code and linked
against those libraries? No need for libgcj.jar and one is
always uptodate with Sun's java releases - pending a local
compile to libraries.
Just curious.
Richard Emberson