[fpc-devel] New FPC target: JVM

Ludo Brands ludo.brands at free.fr
Sun Aug 21 13:46:37 CEST 2011


> > No, Java is also known as a platform (like Java Virtual Machine).
> 
> There are three separate things:
> * Java the programming language
> * the JVM platform/specification
> * the JDK
> 
> There are indeed commonly called together "the Java 
> platform", but they are not indivisible. That's why it's 
> possible to e.g. compile Pascal code into JVM byte code that 
> makes use of the JDK.
> 

And for gnu gcj to compile java into native machine code. No bytecode
involved.

Ludo




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