I'm trying to get the generics branch to build with ecj on ikvm. Unfortunately I'm running into all sorts of problems.
The first class of problems were nice and obvious: Changes were needed to IKVM's implementations of various java.lang.reflect and VM* classes to match the new generic signatures in 1.5 (interestingly, this applied to VMClass and Constructor but not to Field or Method - I guess the work in that area isn't complete yet). I was able to at least stub methods with the right signatures easily here by comparison to vm/reference. The second class of problems were less trivial: it seems that there are some fairly significant differences between ikvm's VM* class implementations (based, presumably, on the requirements of Classpath's HEAD) and what the generics branch expects. Some of the trivial differences (VMFile.caseSensitive versus VMFile.IS_CASE_SENSITIVE) were easy to address, but eventually there were so many that I gave up. Is the generics branch lagging behind HEAD in terms of VM interface? Or is IKVM running with an older classpath version? Finally, the problem that led me to give up entirely and email the list was that when I tried to build without accounting for IKVM at all, but just using vm/reference, it *still* didn't build. Now I got errors in AbstractList claiming that its ListIterator type didn't provide implementations of the right generic method signatures (specifically, it didn't provide add(E) and set(E) methods). Is the generics branch buildable at all currently? Stuart. -- http://sab39.dev.netreach.com/ _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
