Re: libgcj

[Chris Lingard <chris@highludworth.freeserve.co.uk>]

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> This looks a bit hackish.

Yes, just a hack.  I have also put things in the headers like hurdcatch instead
of catch, (cthreads.h).  Unfortunately, there are c++ reserved words in Hurd
headers.  This will cause problems when you need ddd, once you have X


> Is it too hard to fix the code so that it can deal
> with arbitrary long hostnames and path names? It is not difficult to adjust
> the buffer size on ERANGE, or to use glibc interfaces like
> get_current_dir_name etc.
>

Probably not now that you have told me.  I offer this thing as a prototype,
could it be useful?  If people are going to use it then it is worth spending some
time on.  If it turns out to be an experiment, to see the Hurd compiling c++ and
Java; but it is of no use, then a hack is the best way.

It just seemed an amusing experiment to build this library.  I now have c++,
Fortran and Java, plus the more normal gcc languages.  I think I will port Ada
next.

Chris