c/c++ to bytecode

Sun Dec 3 05:29:00 GMT 2006

tsuraan writes:
 > > Finally, Trent Waddington wrote a jvm backend for gcc, available at
 > > http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~cristina/uqbt.html#gcc-jvm
 > 
 > Aside from RMS's objections about this making licensing tricky, is
 > there any reason this hasn't been folded into the main gcc code?
As well as RMS's objections,
It's not been submitted
It's highly experimental
No-one has volunteered to maintain it
I'm sure other users could think of more reasons.
 > I hate to think that gcc is being technically impaired by political
 > issues, but it really looks like that's what happened here.
Oh. I would hate to think that gcc was being politically impaired by
technical issues, but there ya go...
Andrew.