Java > 1.5

Sat Aug 16 10:33:00 GMT 2014

Is gcj going to be archived and removed from gcc? No one works on it right?
> On Aug 16, 2014, at 4:14 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On 15/08/14 18:54, Ruben De Smet wrote:
>> Dear java@gcc.gnu.org list,
>>>> I've gotten to compile some things with GCJ (hooray!) which don't run
>> fine (ooooh). If I don't come to run it on my own, I'll certainly file a
>> bug report or contact this list.
>>>> I would like to avoid having to distribute a Java runtime to users, but
>> my teammate is writing code in Java 1.7. I read GCJ only understands 1.5.
>>>> Is there any development going on for Java 1.7? Would it be a lot of
>> work to implement some Java 1.7 features? I would take it on me if needed.
>> Right now there's not much prospect of that. The problem is the class
> libraries, which would require a lot of work. The best prospect is to
> convert libgcj to use the libraries from OpenJDK, which would work,
> but again the conversion would take maybe 6 months for someone who
> knows gcj very well, along with some compiler changes. It could be
> done, but there needs to be a compelling reason.
>>> There were two things I noticed with my teammates code that were using
>> 1.7 features. @Override on interfaces and multi exception catch (like
>> catch (IOException | OtherException e) ).
>> I'm sure it's possible.
>> Andrew.