From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 4 18:53:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA01601 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 18:53:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA01583 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 18:53:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghhicks@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id UAA24569 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 20:52:56 -0600 (CST) Received: from atl-ga27-20.ix.netcom.com(206.214.125.52) by dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma024555; Thu Dec 4 20:52:35 1997 Message-ID: <34876C8D.EFFA3DE3@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 21:53:01 -0500 From: Jerry Hicks Reply-To: wghhicks@ix.netcom.com Organization: TerraEarth X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kaffe vs. Javasoft References: <199712041752.LAA28260@tick.ssec.wisc.edu> <34876099.167EB0E7@xmission.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It translates the bytecodes to target the gcc backend. The info I saw is on the Cygnus website. I've heard from someone that it is progressing *very* slowly. Cheers, Jerry Hicks jerry_hicks@bigfoot.com Wes Peters wrote: > 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