RE: [Jikesrvm-core] Re: gnu.java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl

2004-05-12 Thread Jeroen Frijters
Steven Augart wrote: If someone does that kind of port, he'll have more problems than just than the size of a file descriptor. I am not a big fan of writing massively general code just in case. The Extreme Programming series of books talks about this too. Sufficient unto the day is the evil

Re: Ease the synchronisation of GNUJAXP

2004-05-12 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Michael Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Dienstag, 11. Mai 2004 19:03 schrieb Arnaud Vandyck: Some comments about this cryptic message! Dalibor and Mark told me one day that it's difficult to merge gnujaxp because of the $Id$ tags in some files. When they compare files, the diff were huge

Re: GNU Classpath 0.09 release (not yet, but pre1 available)

2004-05-12 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Hi Mark, Hi all, On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 13:42, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: As I already proposed, I still want to help cp-tools and gjdoc... Great. Thanks. There are several things that need to be done before we can easily and correctly use gjdoc to

Re: [Jikesrvm-core] Re: gnu.java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl

2004-05-12 Thread Anthony Green
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 14:34, Steven Augart wrote: If someone does that kind of port, he'll have more problems than just than the size of a file descriptor. I did an exotic port, and this was my solution (which I still think is a good idea!):

Re: [Jikesrvm-core] Re: gnu.java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl

2004-05-12 Thread Steven Augart
Anthony Green wrote: I did an exotic port, and this was my solution (which I still think is a good idea!): http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2003-04/msg00092.html The overhead of always using a 64-bit quantity to store a file descriptor and then passing it to the JNI functions would be

Re: [Jikesrvm-core] Re: gnu.java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl

2004-05-12 Thread Anthony Green
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 03:58, Steven Augart wrote: The overhead of always using a 64-bit quantity to store a file descriptor and then passing it to the JNI functions would be several times lower than the overhead of those JNI functions having to call PlatformFileDescriptor.getFD(). ? That's

Re: [Jikesrvm-core] Re: gnu.java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl

2004-05-12 Thread Per Bothner
Anthony Green wrote: I did an exotic port, and this was my solution (which I still think is a good idea!): http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2003-04/msg00092.html which says: My basic plan is to move all of these package private methods to a new abstract class called

Trouble running autogen.sh

2004-05-12 Thread Steven Augart
I get the following output when I run ./autogen.sh in the root of a classpath CVS checkout. Am I doing something wrong? This has happened several times in a row, even after I updated my aclocal.m4 by running aclocal -I . (Not that I should have to, since autogen does it for me, but there is

Re: [Jikesrvm-core] Re: gnu.java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl

2004-05-12 Thread Steven Augart
Anthony Green wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 03:58, Steven Augart wrote: The overhead of always using a 64-bit quantity to store a file descriptor and then passing it to the JNI functions would be several times lower than the overhead of those JNI functions having to call

Re: Trouble running autogen.sh

2004-05-12 Thread Steven Augart
Michael Koch wrote: Can you try a newer libtool ? Perhaps 1.4.2/3 is just too old. Done. I downloaded and built 1.5.6 onto the antique Red Hat 9 system I'm using. It works fine. Obviously the minimum should be upgraded to at least 1.4.4 (and that too might not work). Would someone be willing

Re: Trouble running autogen.sh

2004-05-12 Thread Michael Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 12. Mai 2004 18:03 schrieb Steven Augart: Michael Koch wrote: Can you try a newer libtool ? Perhaps 1.4.2/3 is just too old. Done. I downloaded and built 1.5.6 onto the antique Red Hat 9 system I'm using. It works fine. Obviously

Re: Trouble running autogen.sh

2004-05-12 Thread Michael Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 12. Mai 2004 12:47 schrieb Steven Augart: I get the following output when I run ./autogen.sh in the root of a classpath CVS checkout. Am I doing something wrong? This has happened several times in a row, even after I updated my