Re: VM support for GetDirectBufferAddress

[Michael Koch]

Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 16:19 schrieb Robert Schuster:
> Hi.
> This is for all VM implementors.
>
> Which Free Java VMs support the GetDirectBufferAddress() in a way
> that it returns a real buffer address instead of NULL?
>
> If your VM does not support it: Can you tell me about the reasons
> and the priority of implementing it?
> If it does: Can you tell me since which version it is supported?
>
> My reason for asking is that I am in contact with the maintainer of
> sdljava (revived jsdl) which is partly relying on that JNI feature.
> If we can get a number of Free Java VMs to support it, this will
> mean the beginning of multimedia and OpenGL support for Free Java
> (not to mention that freefodder will be one of the first that will
> support this :P ).
>
> A summary of your answers will certainly make it into the
> documentation of sdljava.

Probably no release one. I submitted a patch to libgcj today to fix 
this in GCC HEAD. When this is in I will merge the needed Java parts 
into GNU classpath too. libgcj includes a testsuite for JNI methods. 
I have a new testcase for this. Perhaps we should move this into a 
new mauve module.


Michael
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