What is the status for support for java on mips ?

Mon Jun 10 13:19:00 GMT 2002

On 2002年6月10日, M. Grabert wrote:
> I searched the mailing list and it seems you can get gcj/gij running on
> the SGI O2 (increasing the command line length, --enable-libgcj ...). What
> is the current state ? Will this trick work and result in a working
> gcj/gij ?

Last I recall the test suite was mostly passing on Irix. That's a good
sign, but only you can say if it's good enough for your purposes...
> I also read that Linux/mips has some problems with boehm-gc and therefore
> gcj/gij won't work. Does this also affect Linux/mispel (little endian
> mips) ?

You may be in luck. H.J. Lu posted some patches for Linux/mips today:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-06/msg00887.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-06/msg00824.html
Judging from the test results, the signal handler code may need work but
otherwise this is encouraging. If you can't wait for 3.2 you might try
these patches in a 3.1 source tree or on the mainline.
Jeff