GCJ ------ file type not supported by system

Thu Sep 4 20:37:00 GMT 2014

On 09/04/2014 01:13 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 03/09/14 18:59, Per Bothner wrote:
>> On 09/03/2014 09:35 AM, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
>> (I don't believe Eclipse's compiler is as solid or complete, though that may be
>> my bias from having worked with javac engineers. It's probably good enough for
>> at least the initial stages of merging in OpenJDK classes.)
>> Oh, OK. Most of the world I know about uses Eclipse for everything.

The Oracle javac team are part of the group that designs languages changes,
writes the language specification, and figure out the corner cases. They work
closely with the people working on libraries, and the VM. The Eclipse
compiler people are inherently going to have a problem keeping up.
I have read that the Eclipse support for Java 8 features was pretty
rushed, under-resourced, and barely done in time.
If I ran Eclipse, I'd drop the compiler, and use OpenJDK javac,
like NetBeans does. (Probably - there may be good reasons to keep ecj,
but I suspect the biggest one is the one-time switch-over hurdle.)
It wouldn't surprise me to see that happening.
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	--Per Bothner
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