Speaking of runtime options

Mon Jan 28 15:32:00 GMT 2002

Nic Ferrier wrote:
>I know that gcj is focussed mainly on the compilation of java to
>native code... but the interpreter is also useful.
>>Currently the interpreter doesn't support the same options as Sun's
>interpreter. GCJ can't use getopt because of licencing problems so I
>started writing an option parser that could be used.
>>I've done most of it and it's fairly simple, but I did it as an
>exercise more than anything and I don't want to continue with it
>unless it's useful to the GCJ team.
>>>Would a new gij (or a new option handler for the gcj tool) be useful?
>
Definately! Note that gij could be written in pure Java, unless perhaps 
there are command line options which can only be set before the runtime 
is initialized.
regards
Bryce.