Re: SMP problems (was Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0)

2004-11-14 Thread Robert Lougher
Hi, Further to my previous email, here's a patch to JamVM 1.2.0 to include memory barriers on Intel. Mark, as you've seen the problem with Eclipse 3, could you give it a test? If there's anybody else who's seen problems I'd be grateful if you could also give it a go. Thanks, Rob. P.S. I

Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0

2004-11-13 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi all, On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 22:15, Mark Wielaard wrote: We do now have a few small regressions however. There is something wrong with zip/jar archives on the classpath (this might or might not be a GNU Classpath issue, we changed the VM interface subtly so maybe it is a runtime issue).

Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0

2004-11-13 Thread Robert Lougher
Hi all, On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:58:53 +0100, Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Eclipse 3 (but not 2) startup problem seems to only happen on SMP machine (it disappears when I don't use a SMP kernel, this is on a Intel hyperthreading system) with jamvm [*]. It works fine with gcj/gij

SMP problems (was Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0)

2004-11-13 Thread Chris Pickett
Robert Lougher wrote: Hi all, On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:58:53 +0100, Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Eclipse 3 (but not 2) startup problem seems to only happen on SMP machine (it disappears when I don't use a SMP kernel, this is on a Intel hyperthreading system) with jamvm [*]. It works

Re: SMP problems (was Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0)

2004-11-13 Thread Chris Pickett
sorry, please CC responses to that last message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris Chris Pickett wrote: Robert Lougher wrote: Hi all, On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:58:53 +0100, Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Eclipse 3 (but not 2) startup problem seems to only happen

Re: SMP problems (was Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0)

2004-11-13 Thread Chris Pickett
or [EMAIL PROTECTED] even. my apologies, i'm really tired, i already retyped the whole email once b/c i made thunderbird die. chris Chris Pickett wrote: sorry, please CC responses to that last message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris Chris Pickett wrote: Robert

Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0

2004-11-12 Thread Steven Augart
Mark Wielaard wrote: Yup. I am going way to slowly through the regressions. Hopefully we get them all fixed. But I cannot guarantee. I should have been more clear on the release dates. I will make sure to re-announce those more clearly for the next release. While I was preparing the release last

RE: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0

2004-11-11 Thread Jeroen Frijters
Mark Wielaard wrote: The (ambitious) goal is still to have a 1.0 release before (or around) Fosdem (Brussels, 26/27 February 2005). Excuse me for being the skeptic again, but this seems outrageously unreasonable to me. We haven't even decided on what should be in the 1.0 release and, frankly, I

Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0

2004-11-11 Thread Steven Augart
Mark Wielaard wrote: I want to try to make the 0.12 release with all the great new stuff on Friday (Nov 12). I would really prefer that we not do the 0.12 release with the stuff on Friday. As I discovered last night (and have written separately to the list), changes made on Tuesday have broken

Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0

2004-11-11 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 22:41, Steven Augart wrote: Mark Wielaard wrote: I want to try to make the 0.12 release with all the great new stuff on Friday (Nov 12). I would really prefer that we not do the 0.12 release with the stuff on Friday. As I discovered last night (and have

Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0

2004-11-11 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 05:00, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.jar.JarFile.getInputStream (JarFile.java:458) at gnu.java.net.protocol.jar.Connection.getInputStream (Connection.java:163) at java.net.URL.openStream (URL.java:683)

Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0

2004-11-11 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 08:06, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: But I noticed one regression. The Sun's SymbolTest you can get from http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/java/jdk-1.2.2/demo/applets/SymbolTest/SymbolTest.java used to work i.e. 6 months ago and even year ago. But now I only get

GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0

2004-11-10 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi all, I wanted to do a new release last weekend. But that weekend there was a lot of new code merged from libgcj, build fixes, new bean code, image code, classloader updates, file name normalization updates, new X.509 certificate (path checking) code and signed jar entries support... That

Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0

2004-11-10 Thread Stuart Ballard
[forgot to CC the list on this first time around] Mark Wielaard wrote: To focus more on working towards a 1.0 I want to start to make monthly releases. 0.13 start of December, 0.14 start of January and 0.15 start of February. The 0.13 release will be the cut-off date for new packages/classes (we

Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0

2004-11-10 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 16:15, Mark Wielaard wrote: We do now have a few small regressions however. There is something wrong with zip/jar archives on the classpath (this might or might not be a GNU Classpath issue, we changed the VM interface subtly so maybe it is a runtime issue). Opening a

Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0

2004-11-10 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 23:00, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 16:15, Mark Wielaard wrote: We do now have a few small regressions however. There is something wrong with zip/jar archives on the classpath (this might or might not be a GNU Classpath issue, we changed the VM