Re: Compiling with jikes 1.13

2002-02-04 Thread Chris Gray
Mark Wielaard wrote: Hi, The HACKING file says: - IBM jikes 1.13 (newer versions up to 1.15 appear to be broken) I am using jikes Version 1.15 - 26 Sept 2001 and didn't notice any errors. Does anybody remember why we don't recommend jikes 1.13? With Wonka we've had problems with every

nio package and asynchronous io

2002-02-04 Thread Jakob Praher
hi all, do you have any plan on adding nio support and asynchronous io to the classpath project? if yes what is your agenda on this subject. bye Jakob ___ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: nio package and asynchronous io

2002-02-04 Thread Nic Ferrier
Jakob Praher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all, do you have any plan on adding nio support and asynchronous io to the classpath project? if yes what is your agenda on this subject. I have done a little bit of work for GCJ with this. Unfortunately I haven't had any time recently to

Re: nio package and asynchronous io

2002-02-04 Thread Jakob Praher
Am Mon, 2002-02-04 um 18.39 schrieb Nic Ferrier: Jakob Praher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all, do you have any plan on adding nio support and asynchronous io to the classpath project? if yes what is your agenda on this subject. I have done a little bit of work for GCJ

Re: nio package and asynchronous io

2002-02-04 Thread Nic Ferrier
Jakob Praher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Mon, 2002-02-04 um 18.39 schrieb Nic Ferrier: Jakob Praher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all, do you have any plan on adding nio support and asynchronous io to the classpath project? if yes what is your agenda on this

Re: Compiling with jikes 1.13

2002-02-04 Thread John Leuner
Hi, The HACKING file says: - IBM jikes 1.13 (newer versions up to 1.15 appear to be broken) I am using jikes Version 1.15 - 26 Sept 2001 and didn't notice any errors. Does anybody remember why we don't recommend jikes 1.13? With Wonka we've had problems with every version

Re: Compiling with jikes 1.13

2002-02-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
John Leuner wrote: There were issues (don't remember exactly what), but I've been using the jikes 1.15 in debian/unstable and it seems to work fine. (I have compiled all of classpath with it) FWIW, I had to put jikes in debian/unstable on hold at 1.14-0.4 because it started doing nasty

Re: nio package and asynchronous io

2002-02-04 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 18:27, Jakob Praher wrote: Am Mon, 2002-02-04 um 18.39 schrieb Nic Ferrier: Jakob Praher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: do you have any plan on adding nio support and asynchronous io to the classpath project? if yes what is your agenda on this subject.

Re: Compiling with jikes 1.13

2002-02-04 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, Chris Gray wrote: With Wonka we've had problems with every version after 1.12.1 (!). Problems includes: dumps core on valid input, outputs illegal bytecode Stuart Ballard wrote: FWIW, I had to put jikes in debian/unstable on hold at 1.14-0.4 because it started doing nasty things to my

Re: nio package and asynchronous io

2002-02-04 Thread Artur Biesiadowski
Mark Wielaard wrote: I have read the online 1.4 specs for java.nio and thought about how to implement it but I have done no actual work. We will get it in time, but nobody is actively working on it at the moment. For me, most tricky parts of nio is Buffer. You have to extend JNI to enable

Re: Compiling with jikes 1.13

2002-02-04 Thread Eric Blake
I'm one of the jikes developers. I know that Jikes 1.15 has some problems compiling inner classes with private constructors, (jikes compiles with exit status 0, but execution of the resulting .class file causes a VerifyError), and there are a few of those in Classpath. I'm not sure if the

Re: nio package and asynchronous io

2002-02-04 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 22:19, Artur Biesiadowski wrote: Do you think that Buffers should be a part of classpath ? Or should they be left for jvm implementors ? There is quite a lot of code there - all kinds of wrapper classes, splitting, views etc. But on the other hand, core get/set

Re: nio package and asynchronous io

2002-02-04 Thread Bryce McKinlay
Mark Wielaard wrote: do you have any plan on adding nio support and asynchronous io to the classpath project? if yes what is your agenda on this subject. I have done a little bit of work for GCJ with this. I have read the online 1.4 specs for java.nio and thought about how to implement it

Re: Compiling with jikes 1.13

2002-02-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
Mark Wielaard wrote: Have people with jikes problems actaully reported them to the jikes developers? We can try to recompile Wonka with 1.15 to see what happens. Stuart, what program were you using which forced you to downgrade to 1.14? The problems I encountered were in a program written

Re: Compiling with jikes 1.13

2002-02-04 Thread Brian Jones
Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK. So it seems that we can recommend jikes 1.15 for compiling Classpath but it may have some problems for other applications. I will put that in the HACKING and INSTALL notices. There were also problems with compiled constants (final static) using

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2002-02-04 Thread Kevin A. Burton
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Re: nio package and asynchronous io

2002-02-04 Thread shudo
From: Artur Biesiadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] For me, most tricky parts of nio is Buffer. You have to extend JNI to enable them, make some special tricks in jvm to allow them to work with acceptable speed. Do you think that Buffers should be a part of classpath ? Or should they be left for