On Wednesday 04 April 2007 21:51 Rana Dasgupta wrote: > On 4/4/07, Gregory Shimansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 02 March 2007 21:56 Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > > I thought it used to work. Also, I thought that someone had shown > > > that Win2k was still widely deployed. maybe that's win2k+3? (I can > > > never keep the windows platform family straight anymore...) > > > > Resurrecting this old thread about w2k, Nathan, what happens if you just > > comment out the line with AddVectoredExceptionHandler? In this case > > you'll lose a handler registration, so you will not have hardware NPEs (I > > am not sure about the JIT status for ia32, are hardware NPEs enabled for > > this architecture?), > > Also SOE, unless the implementation has changed...?
Yes of course. I was thinking about simple applications which don't normally cause SOE. > >you won't have JVMTI breakpoints in JIT mode, so debugging > > won't work. But the rest of VM should work on w2k with the exception of > > the code which uses P4 specific instructions. > > > > If this helps to at least start running the VM, I think it could be > > possible to move from vectored exceptions to older structured ones on w2k > > and make it a supported platform. > > > > If you get illegal instruction like mfence on w2k as well, probably the > > modifications which Evgueni Brevnov is going to offer for P3 backport on > > Linux could help you running at least something... > > > > I am asking because I don't have either w2k or P3 processor, so all I can > > do to help right now is give some suggestions. > > > > Gregory -- Gregory
