GCC Might Finally Drop The GNU Compiler For Java (GCJ)

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC Might Finally Drop The GNU Compiler For Java (GCJ)

The GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ) while made a lot of progress in its early years as a free software Java compiler, in recent years it's basically been in maintenance mode and might now be removed entirely from GCC...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-Patch-To-Drop-GCJ

[stikonas]

Well, it was very convenient for bootstraping OpenJDK/IcedTea.

[Chewi]

Yes, for all its warts, it builds IcedTea much faster than IcedTea builds itself. On the other hand, it isn't capable of building IcedTea 3 (Java 8). I know IcedTea are considering JamVM as a possible alternative for bootstrapping but I wouldn't hold your breath.

[chrisr]

Am I correct in thinking that GCJ compiles Java source code to native machine code, and provides its own independently created implementations of all of the Java APIs? In which case, isn't it exactly like Google's Davlik from a legal perspective?

Except that GCJ was first created back in 1999, of course.

[cj.wijtmans]

Am I correct in thinking that GCJ compiles Java source code to native machine code, and provides its own independently created implementations of all of the Java APIs? In which case, isn't it exactly like Google's Davlik from a legal perspective?

Except that GCJ was first created back in 1999, of course.

Dalvik wasnt googles i think and they discontinued it for ART. But the concept of ART is the same i believe. And dalvik was a slow JVM not like gcj. ART is more like it.

[peppercats]

Am I correct in thinking that GCJ compiles Java source code to native machine code, and provides its own independently created implementations of all of the Java APIs? In which case, isn't it exactly like Google's Davlik from a legal perspective?

Except that GCJ was first created back in 1999, of course.

Dalvik was a VM, a poor one.
And I see what you're getting at but API reimplementation is protected under fair use. Oracle v. Google is just what happens when you have companies throwing around billions of dollars in legal expenses over nothing.

[jacob]

Well, it was very convenient for bootstraping OpenJDK/IcedTea.

Wow, I never knew someone actually used GCJ!

[andre30correia]

Wow, I never knew someone actually used GCJ!

people who use some linux distro years ago, before openjdk 6/7 becomes a real thing

[carewolf]

Am I correct in thinking that GCJ compiles Java source code to native machine code, and provides its own independently created implementations of all of the Java APIs? In which case, isn't it exactly like Google's Davlik from a legal perspective?

Except that GCJ was first created back in 1999, of course.

No, it is open source and hasn't relicensed any headers.

[FireBurn]

I used GCJ on Gentoo to compile everything that used Java, never benchmarked it though, it certainly died a death when OpenJDK was announced