Re: [Aegisvm-devel] patches to apply to be able to run mauve

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

Hi,

I have just committed the following:

> - other.diff (implements a few other things needed by mauve)
> - finalize-hack.diff (nasty hack that comments out "throw new 
> FeatureNotYetImplementedError()" in runFinalization() in java.lang.System. 
> It's commented out because I don't know how to implement it properly.)

What is remaining are two particular patches:
(1) I am not sure what the patch on interpret.c (invokeinterface code)
    is for.  Would you mind to explain a bit more?  As I understand
    from the JVM spec the narg operand only counts the arguments
    but not the objectref.  Am I missing something?
(2) Concerning the following patch:

> - jpr.diff (patch to j_utf8_scan_qualified_name() and 
> j_utf8_scan_java_simple_class_name(). I'm not sure these are the right 
> fixes for the problem but I know there definitely is a problem with name 
> recognition as mauve and several other programs expect JVMs to accept in 
> there command line names like foo.bar as a java program to execute)

    Do you mean that, say the main() method of a Java program resides
    in class foo.bar, typing "aegisvm foo.bar" does not properly
    start the program?

Thanks.

Philip

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