>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Megacz <[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. Adam> I (and David Crawshaw) have actually done this. Adam> http://tool.ibex.org/ Nice! Last night I modified the eclipse compiler to emit a zip file and also to use GNU-style error formatting. I also went through the other gcj options to see what would require upstream changes. The big thing seems to be handling the -M family of options. There are also little impedance mismatches, like translating gcc's -W options to the style ecj wants; or handling -I. There are different ways to approach these kinds of problems, though; e.g. we could write a custom argument translating program, or we could somehow wedge it into the gcj driver. While investigating I realized that we would also lose a small optimization related to String "+" operations. When translating from .java we currently use a non-synchronizing variant of StringBuffer to do this. There are a couple possible fixes for this. Tom
