Ahead of time compiler solutions

Wed Nov 27 11:47:00 GMT 2002

>>>>> "Philippe" == Philippe Laporte <plaporte@wgate.com> writes:

Philippe> Now from following the project over the few last couple of
Philippe> weeks I get the impression the AWT is far from complete, and
Philippe> in addition, several other issues make GCJ as a whole
Philippe> unsuitable for my purposes. It comes down to requiring
Philippe> certification.
The fact is, we'll probably never get certification. Despite
occasional press releases to the contrary, Sun keeps a tight grip on
the JCK.
Philippe> What files/functions should I start from? Any documentation?
On gcj hacking? The compiler itself is in gcc/java/. Tree
documentation is scattered and sparse; there is some in Texinfo (I
think), but not for gcj itself. There is some in tree.def,
java-tree.def, and tree.h.
My experience is that reading this only helps to a certain point.
Then you have to make your change and figure out why it crashed the
compiler. Sometimes reading randomly through the source code helps.
Tom