gcj, libjava status on darwin.

Thu May 23 16:14:00 GMT 2002

Adam Megacz wrote:
>> Speaking of gcj on Darwin, what ever happened to the issue whereby the
> GC wouldn't work on Darwin because the Darwin libpthread doesn't allow
> you to send a signal to a specific thread?
>> I heard that Apple is now distributing gcc 3.1 binaries, and they
> include a gcj compiler -- does it lack thread support, or has this
> issue been resolved?

We're not including the gcj compiler. The way Apple builds GCC for
Mac OS X is somewhat idiosyncratic, and we haven't spent any time
on getting gcj into that machinery (in fact I've only just started
on g77).
Stan