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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Mumit Khan" <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>, <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Interesting project -- getting gjc working on Cygwin
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 11:26:35 +1100
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What's currently missing in threading?

Rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mumit Khan" <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: Interesting project -- getting gjc working on Cygwin


> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > Anyone interested in tackling the project of getting the gcj
compiler
> > fully supported under Cygwin?  I don't know what this would entail,
> > exactly.
> >
> > Maybe Mumit knows?  Mumit?
>
> The compiler should, at least in theory, work just fine under Cygwin,
but
> the problem is the runtime. It's hard to port libgcj to Cygwin
(threading
> is just one issue), and I don't know what the current status is. Jon
> Beniston <jon AT sentinelware DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> was working on it, and at
one
> point had a non-threaded version ported to Cygwin [1], but his last
known
> URL http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~jb7216/libgcj/ seems to gone now.
>
> I don't do Java, and not familiar with the gory details on what needs
to
> be done.
>
> [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q3/msg00240.html
>
> Mumit
>
>
>