Following GCC Rust being merged and the Modula-2 front-end, a developer hopes to revive the GNU Compiler Assortment (GCC) Java front-end, GCJ.
Again in 2016, the GCC compiler dropped the Java/GCJ support over being unmaintained. The GCC Java help was eliminated over lack of maintenance and never seeing a lot consideration on condition that there have been quite a few free software program Java implementations.
Unbiased developer Max Downey Twiss is hoping to see GCJ restored and has been engaged on reviving that front-end with varied fixes. On condition that there are different Java bytecode compilers on the market and a free Java runtime library, he hopes to concentrate on GCJ being a free machine code compiler for Java. He hopes to interchange Classpath with OpenJDK and concentrate on GCJ for concentrating on machine code.
However earlier than getting too excited, the present patch collection he has been engaged on fail to hyperlink and thus not usable in present type. Up to now it additionally seems to be only a sole developer effort attempting to get GCJ into order whereas he hopes to care for its upkeep and at the very least keep comparable degree of performance to the beforehand eliminated Java front-end.
These can discover the present GCC Java front-end dialogue by way of gcc-patches.
