Archie,
This helps a bunch! I was getting lost in the JCNI code.
Thanks
Weldon
On 4/12/06, Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Weldon Washburn wrote:
> >> There's nothing unusual about JCHEVM's native code dispatch.
> >> However, JCHEVM constructs dynamic function calls itself (instead
> >> of using libffi like SableVM does). So if C calling conventions under
> >> Cygwin (which are what?) are different than Linux, you could see
> >> misalignment of parameters, etc.
> >
> > hmmm.... this is starting to sound like classic ABI issues. I will
> > investigate and report back. Different tool chains take different
> > approaches to passing arguments. I noticed a comment in
> > arch_functions.c that says, "We use __attribute__ ((regparm(3))) which
> > places the first three arguments..." I gdb stepped through
> > _jc_dynamic_invoke() and noticed that it copies three slots off of the
> > machine stack and puts them in registers. I guess I need to compile
> > the native method with __attribute__ ((regparm(3))) ??
>
> The regparm() stuff is only used for JCNI native dispatch, not
> JNI dispatch. I.e., it's only used internally within JCHEVM itself.
> So this should not affect handling of JNI native dispatch.
>
> >> Not sure what you mean by name decoration and build options.
> >
> > The problem is aligning the java classes with the native methods they
> > call. The goal is definitely zero mods to native-src directory. But
> > I suspect this will depend on ABI issues for the different platforms.
> > In specific, netBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows vs. Cygwin vs. Xen...
>
> I still don't understand... the consistency of Java native method name
> and parameter declarations with the C code that implements them (which
> is specified exactly in the JNI specification and is the same everywhere)
> seems like a completely different issue from whether the JVM and native
> methods were compiled using the same ABI.
>
> -Archie
>
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