Andrew Haley and I had a long talk about gcj and the eclipse java compiler (we call it "ecj" for short) while we were at FOSDEM last week. We concluded that we didn't foresee any serious technical problems with using ecj as the java language front end to gcj, and that we would like to move forward with this approach.
Naturally we would do the work on a branch and it would be subjected to the normal review processes, etc, before any merge to the trunk. However, we wanted to get a ruling on our plan from the steering committee before proceeding. It would be inefficient to put a lot of work into this if it were later found to be politically or legally impossible. In particular we would like to import a copy of the ecj sources into the GCC source tree, so that we can continue to deliver a complete compiler system in a single download. So, could the SC please discuss the ecj plan and let us know whether it is acceptable? It would also be helpful to have some idea of how long the discussion might take. Tom
