Release Notes - RVM - Version 3.1.1 ** New Feature * [RVM-839] - Support for Reference Types in the MMTk Harness * [RVM-841] - Make it possible to query the compiler to direct optimization * [RVM-845] - Primitive write barrier support ** Improvement * [RVM-846] - MMTk Harness: Provide command-line option for watching addresses * [RVM-848] - Update bootimage writter with known static fields for Harmony classlib * [RVM-861] - Refactor bulkCopy optimisations for RVMArray arraycopy's ** Bug * [RVM-184] - MarkCompactLocal.compact():80 assertion failure * [RVM-604] - Require two different host JVMs to successfully build on Linux/PowerPC * [RVM-639] - Spec JVM 98 javac failing with Harmony * [RVM-693] - Regression in TestSerialization with Harmony * [RVM-827] - Crash in GC while running Eclipse IDE * [RVM-831] - Incomplete implementation of GetFieldID and GetStaticFieldID * [RVM-832] - Mature space mutator allocator reset before semi-space flip * [RVM-833] - GC failures with ia32 BaseBase compiler, ExtremeAssertions and -X:gc:verbose=1 * [RVM-834] - Assertion failure in ExtremeAssertionsBaseBaseSemiSpace * [RVM-836] - Static initialization loop in Generational collectors * [RVM-838] - MMTk Harness 'Spawn' script fails with an NPE on multiprocessors * [RVM-840] - MMTk Harness fails on Poisoned heap collector * [RVM-854] - Failed to find a value to spill when * [RVM-856] - RVM fails to build under OS X 10.6 * [RVM-860] - ExtremeAssertionsOptAdaptive compiler failure for jvm98 _227_mtrt on ppc32 * [RVM-862] - 2 static fields using an identic slot * [RVM-863] - BumpPointer.scanRegion can cause a page fault * [RVM-864] - Build failure using IBM Java 6 SDK as host JVM on linux-ia32 * [RVM-879] - Mark Compact does not work with Native Threads * [RVM-887] - RVM failure at startup when using -Xbootclasspath (Trying to load a class too early in the booting process) * [RVM-889] - JSR166 tck fails EntryTest, PriorityQueueTest and PriorityBlockingQueueTest * [RVM-890] - MarkCompact broken by new threading model * [RVM-894] - MMTk Harness doesn't allow Log.writeln in constructors