Hey, Dalibor...
When will Kaffe also work with the Harmony classlib? :)
geir
Dalibor Topic wrote:
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:46:29AM -0400, Etienne Gagnon wrote:
Tim Ellison wrote:
Gary Clark wrote:
3) Do any of the current VMs support the 1.5 features? Off the top of my
head I don't recall if anything changed within the VM to support them.
I'll let Etienne, Archie, Dalibor, et al describe their status wrt Java
1.5 support. The IBM VM can switch to 1.5 support trivially but we are
limiting it to 1.4 until there is reasonable coverage in the open source
VMs.
We'll have 1.5 support out of the box for the next Kaffe release.
Guilhem has checked in the code, so I just need to find some time to
make the build system work with a generified glibj.zip, and see if we
are missing some changes from the GNU Classpath 1.5 VM interface.
We need it for ant on the gump, since it's stuck trying to
build code for a 1.5 VM without having some of the classes & enums.
There is a bug report for it on the ant bugzilla, but it gets boring
to have to patch ant to work around the VM version detection code. It
is simpler to just give it what it wants, a 1.5-ish VM. ;)
In other words, Gump is great for discovering that sort of issues.
cheers,
dalibor topic
One of my former students succeeded to run SableVM with the generic
branch of GNU Classpath over the holidays, by only implementing one or
two additional native methods in SableVM (the code should be in his
sandbox somewhere). As far as I know, the type erasure stuff was chosen
by Sun as to minimize the impact of generics on the virtual machine.
So, I don't expect the switch to 1.5 to be something big. But, first,
it would be nice to get SableVM to work with current Harmony... So, I'm
working on that for the time being.
Etienne
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