FYI: submitted ecj patch upstream

Tue Oct 10 10:22:00 GMT 2006

David Daney writes:
 > Andrew Pinski wrote:
 > >>I like the idea of checking in the .class files (perhaps in the form a a 
 > >>jar file) and CNI headers.
 > > 
 > > If we are going to do that, what about a 4 stage bootstrap or so which just
 > > compiles ecj to native also at the same time.
 > 
 > You would not need an extra stage. Just build libgcj and ecj earlier in 
 > the bootstrap (in stage1 and/or stage2) so that stage3 would be built 
 > with the bootstrapped ecj.
This is turning into a discussion about "how" rather than "what". We
agree in principle that we whould not require a working JVM before
bootstrapping gcc with gcj. It would be nice to precompile ecj1 as
part of that bootstrap, but IMO it shouldn't be a requirement. The
fewer hard requirements the better.
Andrew.