Reconsidering gcjx

Sun Jan 29 19:05:00 GMT 2006

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> I think our technical approach should be to have ecj emit class files,
> which would then be compiled by jc1. In particular I think we could
> change ecj to emit a single .jar file. 

I (and David Crawshaw) have actually done this.
 http://tool.ibex.org/
The Eclipse compiler is great. I really like it.
Plus, lots of tools are designed to use Java bytecode as an
intermediate format (however ill-suited it may be for that task).
Making bytecode the primary input format for gcj would make coupling
such tools to gcj a less out-there-in-left-field sort of thing.
 - a