i2p liberated! [Fwd: GCJ support is on the way]

Fri Oct 21 17:54:00 GMT 2005

>> The first is a bug in GCJ (or maybe GNU Classpath, haven't tested
>> on Jam or Kaffe yet) - when working with a java.util.Calendar, not
>> all of the fields were being set correctly when they should be:

According to Sven, this bug was fixed a while back in Classpath.
It wasn't back-ported to 4.0.x. For 4.1 it is waiting on my resource
merge patch, which is sitting here needing a little more
testing... also it is unclear if it ought to go in, given the current
slushy state of the GCC tree.
>> * 3) prng problems
>> We gobble random bits like crazy. To get a functional system, I
>> had to disable our PRNG pool (which pulls data out of
>> java.security.SecureRandom) and enable the weak PRNG (which pulls
>> data out of java.util.Random). This is not necessarily
>> entirely GCJ's fault, but more of an issue with the OS which GCJ
>> doesn't hide.

Could you file this in bugzilla?
Tom