Julian Dolby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been playing with running AWT programs on Jikes RVM using GNU > Classpath, and I have have made some simple applications run. The major > issue was the threading model, and the assumption that Java threads look > like pthreads, which they do not on Jikes RVM (we use our own user-level > threading). I found the gthread-jni files, and I basically filled in all > the functions in gthread-jni.c to use JNI to talk to Java-level > synchronization mechanisms. I also passed the magic structure of those > function pointers to g_thread_init in GtkMainThread.gtkInit. This code > should work for any VM; nonethelessI put the changes to use this stuff > under a --enable-portable-native-sync option to configure, so that VMs that > do not support all the JNI I used will not be bitten by it.
Yes, perhaps we can make the portable native sync the default eventually. Brian -- Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
