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| author | Bryce McKinlay <bryce@gcc.gnu.org> | 2000-02-15 08:51:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Bryce McKinlay <bryce@gcc.gnu.org> | 2000-02-15 08:51:29 +0000 |
| commit | b5f853e62bdc8216c228c65ae9dafe9973f5104e (patch) | |
| tree | 5fade6a84151e960022d881473f9bc818e08564a /libjava/NEWS | |
| parent | 1733ad7f1011c122c4844afa83180a6204c5371d (diff) | |
| download | gcc-b5f853e62bdc8216c228c65ae9dafe9973f5104e.tar.gz | |
Updated the NEWS
From-SVN: r31980
Diffstat (limited to 'libjava/NEWS')
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/libjava/NEWS b/libjava/NEWS index 21293ce5f20..ed95555a1df 100644 --- a/libjava/NEWS +++ b/libjava/NEWS @@ -1,19 +1,31 @@ New in libgcj X.XX: -* libgcj now includes a bytecode interpreter. +* libgcj now includes a bytecode interpreter. If a compiled version of a class +is not found in the application binary or linked shared libraries, the +class loader will search for a bytecode version in the CLASSPATH and execute +it using the interpreter. A new front end that behaves like the traditional +`java' command is provided: `gij'. -* Support for specifying java system properties, both compiled in to the -application and at runtime via an environment variable. - -* Complete JDK 1.1 reflection support, including invocation. +* Support for specifying java system properties. Properties can either be set +at runtime via the GCJ_PROPERTIES environment variable in the format +"<name>=<value> ..."'; or can be compiled into an application binary using +-D<name>=<value>. * Support for setjmp/longjmp (sjlj) exception handling has been added, as an -alternative to the existing range-table based mechanism. +alternative to the existing range-table based mechanism. sljl is the default +on non-sparc, non-x86 targets, or can be specified with the +`--enable-sjlj-exceptions' configure parameter. + +* Complete JDK 1.1 reflection support, including invocation. * Throwable.printStackTrace() has been implemented. -* Runtime.loadLibrary() has been implemented, and Class.forName() can now -dynamically load shared objects in order to find a requested class. +* Runtime.loadLibrary() has been implemented. In addition, Class.forName() +will try to load a series of shared objects in order to find the requested +class. If a class `gnu.quux.whatever' is requested, libgcj will first look +for `gnu-quux-whatever.so', then `gnu-quux.so', and finally `gnu.so'. + +* A pure-java implementation of java.math.BigInteger. New in libgcj 2.95: |