Re: [SharpOS Developers] MOSA / AOT

[Phil G. <ph...@th...>]

I'm in general agreement with Mike on this.

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 2:20 PM, grover <sh...@mi...> wrote:

> This is a longer discussion. The MOSA effort as it is right now is
> primarily
> the forum & svn hosted by Scott Balmos (now Ensemble). My personal
> intention
> is to make MOSA a shared effort by both SharpOS and Ensemble. The problem
> both projects face are those of contributors/contributions and as we have
> discussed more than a week ago about architecture. We have to more or less
> live with the split efforts, however I think we can share the code we
> develop.
>
> My contributions to MOSA include:
>
> - A compiler
> - Beginnings of a VES with support for reflection and other things packed
> on
> top
>
> I hope we can extend this through shared efforts to include:
>
> - A common kernel
> - A common driver model and driver code
> - A common port/adaptation of monos corlib
>
> One additional goal is to make MOSA attractive for research.
>
> I have a lot of ideas in this regard and especially my vacation week was
> very productive to accomplish these goals.
>
> My *personal* thinking of MOSA is that it acts as the core kernel and
> SharpOS/Ensemble/... become distributions based on this kernel code in
> different configurations including/excluding certain things. I know this
> isn't easy for some of us and it isn't easy for Scott. However looking at
> the active contributor lists and the overall progress this is the only way
> I
> see both projects or either one can move forward. Either we work together
> or
> we die together.
>
> The AOT is working for us right now. I would like to keep it along as long
> as possible. However there's no real maintenance there as I see it.
>
> Mike
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: sha...@li...
> > [mailto:sha...@li...] Im
> > Auftrag von Sander van Rossen
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Juli 2008 13:36
> > An: sha...@li...
> > Betreff: [SharpOS Developers] MOSA / AOT
>  >
> > I'm looking trough the issues on the sharpos webpage:
> >
> > Is Mosa (going to be) a replacement for the AOT compiler?
> > I'm asking because we have several issues (also for the next
> > milestone) related to AOT.
> > If nobody's going to continue working on the AOT, and it's
> > going to be replaced, then those issues would never be met
> > and should be removed.
> > (for example: "AOT documentation issue" / "Support for
> > floating-point primitives and arithmetic issue" / "Add
> > support for constructors of arrays that are not 0 based.")
> >
> >
> >
> > Also, there still seems to be one open issue on exception handling..
> > Anyone got any idea what the status is on that?
> > (same goes for "Some interrupts need to throw exceptions just
> > like DivideByZero" issue)
> >
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