3 ms·
I was a contributor to Jikes back in the day. The open sourced IBM Jikes compiler was written in C++. But it didn't produce native code. It produced .class file
by correktlogic 10y ago
I was a contributor to Jikes back in the day. The open sourced IBM Jikes compiler was written in C++. But it didn't produce native code. It produced .class files from .java files.
- rjsw 10y agoYou need to be able to produce .class files, as well as C headers, to bootstrap the Sun JDK. You don't need to compile Java to native code.
- correktlogic 10y agoJikes didn't have any javah-like functionality to generate .h files to my knowledge.