Willing to join GSoC2011 project "RTEMS port of the GNU Java Compiler (gjc)"

[chrisj at rtems.org (Chris Johns)]

On 29/03/11 12:56 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 03/28/2011 03:41 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> On 03/19/2011 09:17 PM, ?? wrote:
>
>> This means building and testing gcc. There are scripts in rtems-testing/
>> which are used to test C, C++, Ada, and (preliminary) Objective-C on
>> RTEMS.
>> You will be augmenting those scripts and then fixing whatever is
>> required in
>> gcc to make GCJ work.
> Dumb question: Is GCJ still alive?

It seems to be.

> Correct me if I am wrong, but to my knowledge, GCJ is in some kind of
> hiatus, because most (all?) major GCC contributors are not using it
> anymore.

They moved the front end to ejc in 2007. The patches list seem active.

Chris