From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 4 17:55:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA26088 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 17:55:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA26064 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 17:54:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from softweyr@xmission.com) Received: from obie [199.104.124.49] by mail.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #4) id 0xdmyI-0003B5-00; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 18:54:27 -0700 Message-ID: <34876099.167EB0E7@xmission.com> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 19:02:01 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Glowacki CC: "Alex.Boisvert" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kaffe vs. Javasoft References: <199712041752.LAA28260@tick.ssec.wisc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dave Glowacki wrote: > From various hints on the kaffe mailing list, it seems that Tim Wilkinson > has moved from England to the Berkeley area and is in the process of starting > up a company to sell a DOS version of Kaffe (while keeping the source code > free.) Also, he and Per Bothner (of Cygnus) are working on hacking pieces > of Kaffe into a Java module for the GNU compiler. (I don't have verification > for any of this ... it could all be totally wrong. It's just my best guess > at what's happening.) There was a presentation at Embedded Systems Conference - West last October about upcoming Java language support in the "GNU compiler suite" (gcc). I didn't attend the session, but have the conference notes on CD-ROM somewhere around here. I don't know what kind of "Java environment" support this would entail, but they seemed to be talking of a JVM-less native code compiler. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com