Julian Dolby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   Those of us at IBM at planning to cut a new release of Jikes RVM fairly
> soon, and we would like to make some claims about what the combination of
> it and the GNU Classpath libraries can run.  Is there any chance that my
> recent patches (1059 and 1094) will be merged soon?  If they are merged we
> can make some nice statements about running both Eclipse and some AWT code.


Patch 1059 can probably be applied since it does nothing.

I saw Tom make a post/reply regarding 1094, did you respond to that?

Brian
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Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Dolby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Julian> I found the gthread-jni files, and I basically filled in all
Julian> the functions in gthread-jni.c to use JNI to talk to
Julian> Java-level synchronization mechanisms.  I also passed the
Julian> magic structure of those function pointers to g_thread_init in
Julian> GtkMainThread.gtkInit.  This code should work for any VM;
Julian> nonethelessI put the changes to use this stuff under a
Julian> --enable-portable-native-sync option to configure, so that VMs
Julian> that do not support all the JNI I used will not be bitten by
Julian> it.

I think it would make sense for us to simply require that a JVM
implement these JNI methods correctly.  Is there really a JVM that
Classpath can run on that doesn't?  (I assume they are monitor
enter/exit calls...)

Tom


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