[Aegisvm-devel] AegisVM ported to Solaris/SPARC

[Philip F. <pw...@cs...>]

Hi

With some minor modifications to type.h in libjpr, the aegisvm now
runs on Solaris/SPARC.  As expected, the major hurdle is alignment
problem, which is resolved by providing an alternative version
of j_fetch/store_i8/f8 for platforms with alignment restrictions
more strict than x86.  A surprise is that the old unsigned right shift
operator (ushr) for i4/i8 is not actually portable.  A last problem 
is that libffi does not seem to work as documented on Solaris/SPARC.  
I don't know if I have misunderstood the doc, but I filed a bug report 
anyway.  So, as long as you don't pass boolean/byte/char/short/long to 
and from native methods, it should be fine.

Philip
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