Re: [Sablevm-developer] More on bootstrapping

[Etienne M. G. <eti...@uq...>]

Ian Rogers wrote:

> Runtime.java is VM dependent file you've pulled in from vm/reference.
> The patch is UNIX dependent and removes the bootstrapping problem. I'm
> unclear how you can remove the UNIX dependence without causing the
> bootstrapping problem. I'll check the file in for now as it is at least
> working on UNIX rather than nothing as before.


One of the reasons I have moved the vm/* classes with the remaining 
classes is that I have this long term objective of specifying even these 
core classes in a VM independent way, as much as possible, leaving as 
little as possible native calls back to the VM to gather VM specific 
information.  I think that this is feasible, at least for "dynamic" 
systems. (Might cause problems for static compilers like GCJ).

The result would be a lean and hopefully well specified VM interface.

I can dream... ;)


Etienne
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