Is gcj dead?

Mon Oct 19 13:10:00 GMT 2009

Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> Yuri wrote:
>>>>> Last news in http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ are dated March 2007.
>>>> Yes, we should update that. There hasn't been a lot of new gcj development,
>>>> but it is maintained.
>>>>>>>>> Also I submitted few PRs a month ago and there is no response at all.
>>>> Which ones?
>>> How about this one:
>>>>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40816
>> I am still rather nervous about that one, as it's an ABI change.
>> Point taken.
> In the long term this will prevent compilation of package such as VTK
> on debian on arch such as HPPA.

Really? That's all rather amazing. Is there no simple workaround?
> On those the JAVA implementation is
> GCJ. Hopefully by then OpenJDK-6 will compile on HPPA ...

> Can you set bug as won't fix or something like that ?

I should, I suppose.
Andrew.