gcj and jikes

Tue May 6 16:17:00 GMT 2003

Per Bothner writes:
 > bormisoft@digitizeit.de wrote:
 > > I'm just occasionally following this list and read the thread about
 > > integrating jikes. As far as I understand one of the main reasons for
 > > integrating jikes is to be able to support generics.
 > 
 > No, generics is one of the main reasons for *not* (yet) integrating
 > Jikes. The reasons for integrating Jikes is it is supposedly has
 > fewer bugs and cleaner design.
 > 
 > > Has anybody thought of using the internal eclipse compiler? I
 > > remember reading somewhere, that they already have preliminary
 > > generics support.
 > 
 > Interesting. They really do have an indepdendent compiler?
Yeah, they really do.
Andrew.