libgcj 3.4.6 vs 4.x.x

Wed Jan 6 15:01:00 GMT 2010

On 01/06/2010 01:57 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2010年1月6日 Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>:
>> On 01/06/2010 12:59 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>> 2010年1月6日 Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>:
>>>> On 01/06/2010 11:37 AM, abhishek desai wrote:
>>>>> Is there any documentation about the enhancements in gcj/libgcj
>>>>> between versions 3.4.6 and gcc version 4.x.x ? I tried to compare the
>>>>> changelog but it did not help much as the changelogs are of two
>>>>> different versions.
>>>>>>>> It's mostly just better and better coverage of the language.
>>>>>>>> The key difference was gcj 4.3, which bumped the spec to 1.5, bringing
>>>> annotations and templates.
>>>>>> Templates? What are templates?
>>>> No smiley?
>> Yeah, sorry, forgot the smiley... :-) there we go
>>> OK, generics then. Same thing. More or less... :-)
>> The main difference is ...

Yes, we know, really.
> I was corrected for making the same comparison a long time back when I
> first started working on Classpath (though not by you). So couldn't
> resist the temptation of pointing out they aren't the same ;-)

Ah, that's OK then. :-)
Andrew.