libjava issues with arm-linux-gcj from arm-linux-gcc 3.3.2

Fri Aug 19 09:19:00 GMT 2005

David Daney writes:
 > 
 > I would caution that it is possible that gcj/libgcj will not run very 
 > well on your platform. The non-existence of libjava/sysdeps/arm 
 > indicates to me that not very much hacking has been done to make 
 > arm-linux run very well.
 > 
 > If the state of the mips port in 3.3.x is any indication it might work, 
 > but many things that work on x86 were non-functional. I can see that 
 > ffi closures are still not implemented, so many things in 
 > java.lang.reflect will not work.
Yes. I worry that this might turn out to be a waste of time.
Andrew.