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(post :title "Collaboration projects"
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(p [Here are a couple of projects that cannot possibly be done by just a single motivated individual.
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If you're interested in working on any of these projects please ,(anchor "contact us" "/who.html").])
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(h2 [Continued maintenance of the GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ)])
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(p [Until recently the latest Java Development Kit (JDK) could be bootstrapped in a chain starting with GCJ (the GNU Compiler for Java) and the IcedTea build system.
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GCJ was deleted from the GNU Compiler Collection in October 2016, so it is now unclear how to bootstrap the JDK in future.
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To ensure that the JDK can be built from sources without the need for an existing installation of the OpenJDK we propose to continue maintaining GCJ.])
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(h2 [Collectively maintaining GCC 4.7])
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(p [The C and C++ compilers of the GNU Compiler Collection make up the foundation of many free software distributions.
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Current versions of GCC are written in C++, which means that a C++ compiler is needed to build it from source.
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GCC 4.7 was the last version of the collection that could be built with a plain C compiler, a much simpler task.
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We propose to collectively maintain a subset of GCC 4.7 to ensure that we can build the foundation of free software distributions starting with a simple C compiler (such as tinyCC, pcc, etc).])))
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