Standalone use of gcj

Thu Nov 6 14:17:00 GMT 2003

Hi,
> > In the meantime, being able to use gcj as a pure compiler +
> > it minimum runtime support (garbage collector, and primordial
> > loader, I guess) would be a *GREAT* thing.
>> No. The core libraries depend on native methods, and the interface
> between the core classes and these methods is system dependent. The
> implementation of the core classes and the underlying native code is
> not specified by the Java standard. However, the VM depends on these
> exact implementation details.

It looks to me he wishes something like IBM Jikes. It is just a compiler,
provides no VM and no standard libraries. Is jikes somewhat tied to Sun JVM and
class libraries?
[]s, Fernando Lozano