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Re:GCC Rust Approved by GCC Steering Committee by duckerude on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:19PM (#32060506)
Does it? GCC's Java frontend died and is no longer shipped, they need maintainers like any other compiler.
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Re:GCC Rust Approved by GCC Steering Committee by genewitch on Monday July 11, 2022 @04:45PM (#32061577)
GCJ is no more? It was being used within recent memory for things, i thought.

I am out of the loop though, so if this is true, that's interesting and a bit weird.

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Re:GCC Rust Approved by GCC Steering Committee by pjmlp on Monday July 11, 2022 @06:11PM (#32062693)
Since 2009 actually.

Most contributors eventually moved into OpenJDK after it became available.

GCC folks left it around for a couple of years, because GCJ unit tests exercised parts of the compiler no one else did.

Eventually they decided it wasn't worth that maintenance cost to keep it around only for that purpose.

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