Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>>"Christopher" == Christopher Marshall <christopherlmarshall@yahoo.com> writes: >>> Christopher> Does gcj support more architectures? >> It probably does, though I don't know what all the Sun JDK supports. > gcj is sometimes the first jvm ported to a given architecture. I > think this was the case for IA-64 (though Dalibor thinks it was kaffe > :-) and x86-64. Yeah, I thought it was kaffe, in november 2001, with the port from gwenole beauchesne [1]. But I've also found messages on the gcc lists suggesting that Hash Boehm had gcj running on ia64 earlier, in october [2]. So the 'first java runtime ported to ia64' crown goes to gcj, I think. [1] http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gbeauchesne/ia64/kaffe/ [2] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/linux-ia64/0111/2469.html