Re: [Classpath] Re: Classpath future?

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote:

> I really think that a separate "pure ANSI/ISO/POSIX C + JNI" (OK... only 
> as pure as possible...) native tree should be maintained in Classpath. 
> GCJ programmers could contribute to a separate CNI tree (under the 
> condition that both trees are kept relatively synchronized;-).

[De-lurking]  I'm the primary author of the MIT FLEX compiler
infrastructure (http://www.flexc.lcs.mit.edu/Harpoon), and I'll pipe in my
two cents and mention that pure-C-plus-JNI really is the way to go if you
want classpath adopted any- and every- where.  JNI really *was*
well-thought out with respect to gc-issues, and if you're doing *any*
sophisticated OO tricks in your compiler, you *need* the
implementation-independence which JNI gives you.  I've been trying to port
FLEX over to Classpath from our current "sun jdk1.1"-based runtime for
quite a while (never quite enough time); CNI independence is really a
necessity to allow such cross-pollination to occur.
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