Re: 1.1 vs. 1.2 revisited

[Paul Fisher]

"John Keiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Actually, I was trying to accomodate your problem.  I don't really
> like these defines either.  But what defines would you use to
> accomplish your purpose?  Will they be general enough to make some
> general statement?

For instance, Kaffe might require a native intern'd String but Japhar
would not.  So there would be defines based on the VM.

> I think jpre should be a separate program ... "compiles only under
> guavac" is not the intent of the project, far as I know.

guavac is the only free Java compiler out there.  So it's the only
logical one to use for compiling GNU Classpath.

> Is guavac written in Java at all?

It's all C++.
http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~engberg/guavac/

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