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Sandeep Jindal wrote:

> I can spend time in debugging it, but my question/fear is that is GCJ
> stable enough to spend time on it. My program uses Java's
> Serialization, Collections and Math classes extensively, does GCJ has
> good support for these?

  The current release of gcj is hugely experimental.  I would advise not
spending much time on it.  The next one will be very much better, thanks to
the lessons learned from this test release.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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