[LLVMdev] Java frontend

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Fri Apr 29 20:28:18 PDT 2005


On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Hiroshi Yamauchi wrote:
> I have just read the LLVM paper (CGO'04) and thought
> it was an interesting project. And, I am wondering if
> there exists a Java frontend (that compiles Java bytecode
> to LLVM code) as the paper mentioned. If there is any,
> what is the status of it?

The Java front-end is still under active development.  In addition to bugs 
still being worked out, it still does not support exceptions, GC, and 
probably more.

-Chris

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