Re: [Jikesrvm-core] Re: Updates to GNU Classpath port of JRVM

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 14:03, Michael Hind wrote:
> This message should have cc'd the classpath list as well, so Brian could
> see.

Thanks. Nice to know this is working.

>  The result is that the GNUClasspathSupport  directory in our current CVS
> head is an implementation of the files
> that Classpath expects to be VM-supplied.

I found this code at
http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/cvs/jikesrvm/rvm/src/vm/GNUClasspathSupport/

If you have comments on the current Classpath VM interface please let us
know. Were there things that are missing or could be made easier?

In the future I hope to move things like Thread.java and Runtime.java
out of the VM interfaces and just have small VMThread and VMRuntime stub
classes. This is what was recently done for Throwable but I see that you
don't use the VMThrowable. Was anything missing from the VMThrowable
Interface or was it just easier for you to keep your own Throwable
implementation?

> The only gotcha is that I have made one or two
> structural changes to the Classpath
> code (I keep a check-out of Classpath'sCVS), involving moving some stuff
> out of the core vm classes into the
> classes like VMSystem.  In addition,in my CVS version of classpath, there
> are various bug fixes to the classpath
> code that are required for Jikes RVM to pass our full suite of sanity
> tests.

Would you mind submitting these changes to GNU Classpath? (Brian can
probably help with any copyright assignment or licensing issues.) Or
describe the changes that you needed to make? Are they online somewhere?

Thanks,

Mark