Is gcj dead?

Tue Oct 20 15:08:00 GMT 2009

Joel Dice wrote:
> On 2009年10月20日, Joel Dice wrote:
>>> On 2009年10月20日, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>>> It seems that I was waiting for a complete patch, but one never arrived.
>>> Any patch that goes in now really must be correct and complete, though.
>>>> Agreed. My (possibly naive) suggestion would be to use an escape
>> character or sequence which cannot appear in Java symbol ($$U, perhaps?).
>> Actually, "$$U" may not be ideal - the Java spec permits "$" in
> identifiers (but recommends only using it for mechanically generated
> code and legacy compatibility).

I am not at all sure this *can* be fixed in any sensible way. The best we
could probably do is fix gjavah to emit
 static void xy__U_ser();
instead of
 static void xy__User();
This is slightly unpleasant, but at least it's tolerable.
I'm not really sure that it's worth doing, though.
Andrew.