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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:29:45 +0100
From: Mark Stolz <mstolz AT esmertec DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Update of DJGPP port of GCC-3.0.3
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pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:
> 
> On 1 Feb 2002 at 10:54, Mark Stolz wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:
> > >
> > > Currently C, C++, Fortran and Objective C compilers are supported
> > > for DJGPP. Java compiler is not ported and is not included
> > >
> >
> > Is anyone working on porting the Java compiler? I've been half-toying
> > with the idea of getting a Java running on DOS (a couple of partial
>  > implementation exist) and GCC/DJGPP seems is a possible starting point.
> >
> 
> I don't know. Perhaps not.
> 
> It perhaps would be not so difficult to build Java compiler (I really did it
> for gcc-2.95.X, but not tested, of course). The main problem is with libgcj
> 

Agreed. The GCJ docs discuss porting the thread layer, the file handling
layer, and the signal handling layer. Of these, I think that threading and
signal support would be the most challenging since DOS doesn't provide support
for either (there might also be some DPMI issues, too).

Hmm . . . I think I'll have to take a look at the sources and see what would
be involved.

--Mark