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correktlogic on Oct 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Deletion of gcj

I was a contributor to Jikes back in the day. The open sourced IBM Jikes compiler was written in C++. But it didn't produce native code. It produced .class files from .java files.

rjsw on Oct 3, 2016 [–]

You need to be able to produce .class files, as well as C headers, to bootstrap the Sun JDK. You don't need to compile Java to native code.

correktlogic on Oct 3, 2016 | [–]

Jikes didn't have any javah-like functionality to generate .h files to my knowledge.

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