Re: [Sablevm-developer] Status question(s)

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

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:43:28PM +0200, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
> 2. There are still problems w/ -native build-depending on
> itself. It's very annoying especially while porting to new arches
...
> Any ideas how to fix it?
> Etienne - do you have plans to remove this issue?
> If yes - when can it be expected to happen?

I have to understand the problem, first.  As I don't have an infinite
amount of time to work on all issues, we will have to start
prioritizing tasks.

I currently see the following things to do:

1- Fill the holes in reflexion support for getting the most important
Debian Java apps to work (or at least "Ant").

2- Fill the holes in JNI and Invocation Interface (e.g. clean
DestroyVM, etc.)

3- Look at the AWT stuff, and see if we can get some of it to work.

4- Discuss some formatting issues (e.g. indentation, directory
structure) with the Classpath project so that official Classpath could
work out-of-the-box with SableVM.

5- Solve the multiple-achitecture GNU auto* tools problems you are
raising in this message.

6- Port SableVM to all (or most) Debian architectures.

7- Make sure the "inline-threaded" engine woks on all these
architectures.


Here are the main points I see for the moment.  Have I forgotten
anything?

> 4. What will be needed to get this "faster" threading engine
> working on non-i386 arches? (where should I start?)

First, we need an "iflush()" on them.  Then, it depends.  It might
work out-of-the box on some architectures, or some others might
require playing with the "INLINEABLE" property of some bytecodes
(instructions.m4.c).

OK, I'll be checking mail only on Sunday.  Have fun!

Etienne
> 
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> 
> 					Grzegorz B. Prokopski
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