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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: advice on porting
In-Reply-To: <199707311133.NAA25146@tenuki.honte.es> from Garey Mills at "Jul 31, 97 01:33:19 pm"
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> Hello - I am looking at trying to port Toba, the University of Arizona's 
> Java to C compiler. There are several versions, one for Linux and one
> for Solaris. Which would be the best base for porting? Is there anything
> written on porting issues in general? 

I would *guess* that the Linux version would be easier.
The main work is making Toba use FreeBSD's pthreads I think.

-Archie

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