[Sablevm-developer] Porting sablevm to powerpc

[Mark W. <ma...@kl...>]

Hi (reply to sablevm-developer original message was on debian lists),

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 02:14, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
> 
> So I took some time to check what that "easily portable" means in
> practise - and started porting this JVM to alpha.
> 
> It was my first time I was doing a port and I never wrote in alpha's
> assembler, so it took very long - about 24 hours and resulted (of
> mostly learning) in small diff (around 100 lines, but there was some
> code reorganizing in it too, so real diff was around 25 lines!)
> 
> <blink><B>25 lines to port JVM to new architecture</B></blink>
> 
> Anyway - now SableVM JVM supports ia32 and alpha.
> Official 1.0.2 release will be made soon.
> 
> More arches will come.

Impressive! I am very interested in a VM that uses GNU Classpath and
that I can use on powerpc (Debian GNU/Linux system).
What 25 lines of code do I have to look at?

I have no experience with powerpc assembly so if anybody has references
that would be greatly appreciated.

I would use it to finally setup a autobuilder/tester for Classpath CVS
as I have currently running (on that powerpc machine) for libgcj (which
has still a long way to go for being completely merged with GNU
Classpath).

Cheers,

Mark