Hello, Anthony! All these patches are really for the changes I've made to Classpath v0.10-v0.93 long ago (1-5 years ago). As I was quite busy with my project and always one step (at least) behind the Classpath version, I had never committed to it. Now I'm upgrading the patches for recent Classpath snapshot and pushing them to the community.
As for Classpath usage, my project is a tool for translating Java source to C - JCGO (http://www.ivmaisoft.com/jcgo/). In 2004, I've migrated from J2RE v1.3 to Classpath mostly because it's open-source. (I also appreciated the Classpath idea of VM classes - I rewrote most platform-specific and JavaVM-specific code in Java leaving only trivial library function calls in C code. BTW, if OpenJDK and Harmony had the same concept of VM classes, it would be easier migrate from one to another (or use parts from different core classes libraries.) At present I'm still using Classpath v0.93 (at it's the last one conforming to JLS v2) in my tool but thinking how to enable java generics processing (and to move to the recent Classpath). At present, I'm working on a decompiler which should process classes generated by JDK6 javac but produce source conforming to JLS v1 (with some exception, of course). There already exist tools of that kind (e.g. JadRetro+JAD (http://jadretro.sf.net) produces source conformant to JLS v2) but they are either non-free or/and produce buggy code for some legacy language constructions (like enums). As for Locale class, my tools complained about a circularity dependency during class initialization, so I've changed the class implementation (luckily, there is no need to call toUpperCase() and intern() for everything during Locale clinit except for defaultLocale). (It turned out to be a bit faster as, at least, intern() call is eliminated during clinit and clone(), but it wasn't my original goal.) Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:00:23 -0400 Anthony Green <gr...@redhat.com>: > > Hi Ivan, > > Thanks for all of these great patches. Just out of curiosity, what > has inspired you to do all of this work? Are you using Classpath for > an interesting project? > > Thanks! > > Anthony Green Regards.
