Status of the GJC

Mon Oct 25 22:02:00 GMT 2010

On 10/25/2010 02:56 PM, Harpal Grover wrote:
>>>>>> It's gcj.
>>>> It's mostly in maintenance mode. The compiler itself is pretty solid, but
>> the Classpath runtime library isn't being developed very much. We really
>> need to port gcj to use the OpenJDK runtime libraries, which would make
>> gcj an excellent product, but so far no-one has had the time to do it.
>> I think that's an excellent idea.
>> How does one start helping out with that?
>
Get a copyright assignment in place for GCC and classpath so your 
patches can be accepted.
Then start hacking away. The GCC and GCJ websites have a lot of 
information on various aspects of this process. After looking there, 
you can ask questions on java@gcc.gnu.org.
David Daney