Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think our technical approach should be to have ecj emit class files, > which would then be compiled by jc1. In particular I think we could > change ecj to emit a single .jar file.
I (and David Crawshaw) have actually done this. http://tool.ibex.org/ The Eclipse compiler is great. I really like it. Plus, lots of tools are designed to use Java bytecode as an intermediate format (however ill-suited it may be for that task). Making bytecode the primary input format for gcj would make coupling such tools to gcj a less out-there-in-left-field sort of thing. - a
