Somehow I failed to commit this patch that I wrote exactly two months ago (before the Java frontend and libgcj were actually removed).
Applied now, and more changes to follow later. Gerald Index: index.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/index.html,v retrieving revision 1.1029 diff -u -r1.1029 index.html --- index.html 14 Nov 2016 20:02:03 -0000 1.1029 +++ index.html 4 Dec 2016 23:15:56 -0000 @@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ <a href="c99status.html">C</a>, <a href="projects/cxx-status.html">C++</a>, Objective-C, <a href="fortran/">Fortran</a>, -<a href="java/">Java</a>, Ada, and Go, as well as libraries for these -languages (libstdc++, libgcj,...). +Ada, and Go, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++,...). GCC was originally written as the compiler for the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html";>GNU operating system</a>. The GNU system was developed to be 100% free software, free in the sense Index: style.mhtml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/style.mhtml,v retrieving revision 1.131 diff -u -r1.131 style.mhtml --- style.mhtml 23 Aug 2016 06:49:17 -0000 1.131 +++ style.mhtml 4 Dec 2016 23:15:56 -0000 @@ -10,15 +10,6 @@ <unset-var XHTML> > -;;; For the "java/" pages, we want the navigation bar. - -<if <match <get-var env::PREPROCESS_FILE> "java/[^/]*.html"> - <group - <set-var navigation> - <set-var BACKPATH="../"> - > -> - ;;; Note that the <?xml...> line really needs to start in the first column. <if <var-exists XHTML> @@ -105,26 +96,6 @@ <td valign="top" style="padding-left: 36px;"> <!-- nav frame --> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="10em"> - <if <match <get-var env::PREPROCESS_FILE> "java/[^/]*.html"> - <group - <tr><td><table class="navitem" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> - <tr><td align="center" valign="middle"> - <img src="gcj.jpg" alt="GCJ" width="136" height="98" /> - </td></tr> - <tr><td> - <p> - <a href="index.html">GCJ Home</a><br /> - <a href="../">GCC Home</a><br /> - <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a><br /> - <a href="docs.html">Documentation</a><br /> - <a href="contrib.html">Contributing</a><br /> - <a href="done.html">Done with GCJ</a><br /> - </p> - </td></tr> - </table></td></tr> - > - > - <tr><td><table class="navitem" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr><td>About GCC</td></tr> <tr><td> Index: java/index.html =================================================================== RCS file: java/index.html diff -N java/index.html --- java/index.html 28 May 2016 13:08:43 -0000 1.179 +++ /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 @@ -1,157 +0,0 @@ -<html> -<head> -<title>GCJ: The GNU Compiler for Java</title> -</head> - -<body> - -<h1>The GNU Compiler for the Java<sup><a href="tm.html"><small>TM</small></a></sup> Programming Language</h1> - -<p>GCJ is a portable, optimizing, ahead-of-time compiler for the Java -Programming Language. It can compile Java source code to Java bytecode -(class files) or directly to native machine code, and Java bytecode to -native machine code.</p> - -<p>Compiled applications are linked with the GCJ runtime, -<code>libgcj</code>, which provides the core class libraries, a -garbage collector, and a bytecode interpreter. <code>libgcj</code> can -dynamically load and interpret class files, resulting in mixed -compiled/interpreted applications. -It has been merged with <a -href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/";>GNU Classpath</a> and -supports most of the 1.4 libraries plus some 1.5 additions. -</p> - -<p> -GCJ can also be configured as a cross-compiler, suitable for embedded -systems programming. Recent versions of the <a -href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/";>GNU Debugger</a> support GCJ -(<a href="gdb.html">short tutorial</a>). -</p> - - -<h2><a name="news">GCJ News</a></h2> - -<div class="twocolumns"> - -<!-- News entries start here --> - -<dl class="news"> -<dt>September 22, 2009</dt> -<dd>GCJ support on Windows (Cygwin and MinGW) targets has been enhanced -with a number of bugfixes, and the option to build libgcj in DLL form -for dynamic runtime linking.</dd> - -<dt>March 30, 2007</dt> -<dd>Keith Seitz and Kyle Galloway have made considerable progress on -GCJ's implementation of the JDWP. It is now possible to use eclipse -to debug interpreted Java code using libgcj as the VM.</dd> - -<dt>February 20, 2007</dt> -<dd>Jakub Jelinek checked in a patch to make -<code>java.util.TimeZone</code> read system timezone files. Now -libgcj does not require updating when a timezone change is published. </dd> - -<dt>February 15, 2007</dt> -<dd>David Daney and Johannes Schmidt of Avtrex checked in a new -<code>gc-analyze</code> tool. This is a valuable debugging tool which -can be used to analyze heap dumps from libgcj. </dd> - -<dt>January 8, 2007</dt> -<dd>We've merged the <code>gcj-eclipse</code> branch to svn trunk. -The merge changes gcj to use the Eclipse compiler as a front end, -enabling all 1.5 language features. This merge also brings in a new, -generics-enabled version of Classpath, including some new tools. This -new code will appear in GCC 4.3. </dd> - -<dt>September 11, 2006</dt> -<dd>Joel Dice has -<a -href="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-09/msg00020.html";>announced</a> <a -href="http://ulibgcj.sourceforge.net/status.html";>micro-libgcj -0.1</a>, a lightweight version of libgcj intended to provide a usable -subset of Java's features while remaining small and self-contained. -This release fixes compatibility issues present in the initial 0.0 -release and adds -optional <a href="http://ulibgcj.sourceforge.net/uswt.html";>SWT -support</a>.</dd> - -<dt>June 13, 2006</dt> -<dd>The May 2006 issue of Linux Journal contains the article "<a -href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8757";>Embedded Java with -GCJ</a>" by Gene Sally.</dd> - -<dt>June 6, 2006</dt> -<dd>RMS approved the plan to use the Eclipse compiler as the new gcj -front end. Work is being done on the <code>gcj-eclipse</code> branch; -it can already build libgcj. This project will allow us to ship a 1.5 -compiler in the relatively near future. The old <code>gcjx</code> -branch and project is now dead.</dd> - -<dt>May 20, 2006</dt> -<dd>John David Anglin and Andreas Tobler checked in a <a -href="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-05/msg01004.html";>patch</a> -to enable libjava to be built by default on the HP-UX PA 32-bit platform. -</dd> - -<dt>May 19, 2006</dt> -<dd>Mark Wielaard has imported <a -href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/";>GNU Classpath</a> 0.91 (<a -href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20060515.html";>release -notes</a>) into GCJ.</dd> - -<dt>April 26, 2006</dt> -<dd>Andrew Haley has merged in a <a -href="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2006-q2/msg00100.html";>patch</a> -that eliminates conservative scanning of static data and considerably speeds -up garbage collection in many cases (for example, halving the time spent in -garbage collection when running <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/";>Eclipse</a>). -</dd> - -<dt>April 17, 2006</dt> -<dd>Tom Tromey has <a -href="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-04/msg00046.html";>announced</a> the -availability of two experimental Just-In-Time (JIT) interpreters for GCJ based -on <a href="http://freecode.com/projects/libjit";>libjit</a> and <a -href="http://llvm.org/";>LLVM</a> respectively. The source code for these -JITs is available via the "gcj-jit" module of the <a -href="https://sourceware.org/rhug/";>rhug</a> repository. -</dd> - -<dt>April 4, 2006</dt> -<dd><code>fastjar</code> has been removed from the GCC source tree and made into -<a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fastjar";>a separate project</a>. -The GCJ build process now requires an external tool for creating JARs - it -searches for a tool named either <code>jar</code> or <code>fastjar</code> -during configuration and reports an error if it is unable to find such a tool. -</dd> - -<dt>March 15, 2006</dt> -<dd>David Daney has merged in a <a -href="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2006-q1/msg00289.html";>patch</a> that -adds the new <code>-freduced-reflection</code> option to GCJ. This option -prevents GCJ from generating most of the reflection metadata for classes -resulting in smaller binaries. There are some caveats to using this option -though - please read the GCJ manual for the implications of using this option. -</dd> - -<dt>March 9, 2006</dt> -<dd>Mark Wielaard has imported <a -href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/";>GNU Classpath</a> 0.90 (<a -href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20060306.html";>release -notes</a>) into GCJ.</dd> - -<dt>February 8, 2006</dt> -<dd>Mark Wielaard has written "<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/171139/";>A -look at GCJ 4.1</a>" for LWN.net.</dd> - -</dl> - -<div><a href="news.html">Less recent GCJ news</a></div> - -</div> - -<!-- News entries end here --> - -</body> -</html>
