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What is that? Googling ersatz gcj gives your comment as the only relevant result. Also GCJ is/was a Java compiler as far as I am aware.
by poizan42 9y ago
What is that? Googling ersatz gcj gives your comment as the only relevant result. Also GCJ is/was a Java compiler as far as I am aware.
- aisofteng 9y ago>ersatz >ˈəːsats,ˈɛːsats/ >adjective >(of a product) made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else.
- amluto 9y agopdftk is a sort-of-C++ program that contains code like: #include "pdftk/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfReader.h" ... if( input_pdf_p->m_password.empty() ) { reader= new itext::PdfReader( JvNewStringUTF( input_pdf_p->m_filename.c_str() ) ); PdfReader is actually java/pdftk/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfReader.java in the pdftk source distribution. Yes, this is a C++ program that's instantiating a Java class. As far as I can tell, what's actually going on is that all the Java code is compiled to C++-ABI-compatible .o files using GCJ and pdftk.cc links against them, giving a native program that is nonetheless mostly written in Java. Yikes! Perhaps unsurprisingly, GCJ didn't get a huge amount of traction, and it has been deleted from the GCC tree entirely. Good riddance, maybe, but it makes it rather difficult to compile pdftk.
- jbn 9y agoSomeone should port all that C++ code (there's not that much of it, really) to Java, that would make it a lot easier to compile, wouldn't it?