[Info-vax] Java portability and VMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <ijmrg3$kpv$2 at news.eternal-september.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> I thought that there was a Java front-end for gcc, that would
> generate code as gcc would.

   Yes, from the Java point of view, gcc did it wierd.

   If you gcc a .java file with no qualifiers, it generates a native
   executable, not byte code in a .class file.  To get Java byte code
   to run under gcc, you have to compile the .class file to a native
   executable.

   But the rest of the world is still using a JIT.