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Re: Classpath / GCJ java.io Merge
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Brian Jones |
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Re: Classpath / GCJ java.io Merge |
Date: |
27 Feb 2003 18:03:28 -0500 |
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Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron M Renn <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Aaron> For #1, I have no idea what has been decided regarding native code.
> Aaron> Last I checked, we still had a JNI/CNI deadlock going on.
>
> I'm resigned to the fact that we'll need dual implementations of
> certain native code. The Gtk AWT peers I imported into libgcj as-is,
> using JNI, but that is a special case.
>
> This does hamper merging since it is a lot of effort to rewrite the
> JNI code. I've never had time, or really much motivation.
> I think there's also some question of which approach is preferable.
I have noticed that for a good deal of CNI code it is quite straight
forward to turn it into C or C++ based JNI instead. There was a Perl
script that someone purported to do some of this a while ago. I'm
tempted to play with it a bit.
--
Brian Jones <address@hidden>