Geir,

What's the first thing we do?
I'd suggest switching the build to 1.5.

The rest will come shortly :)

Pavel Pervov.
Intel Middleware Products Division.

On 6/23/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

This sounds easy and fun.

What's the first thing we do?

geir


Rana Dasgupta wrote:
> Geir,
>  Not sure at what level of detail you are asking, but  we  need some
> changes in the DRLVM class support code to handle the new
> class format. These include the acc_synthetic , acc_annotation etc.
access
> modifiers,  the new attrs like enclosingClass,  runtime
> visible/invisible attrs, signatures for generics support and the
> class/interface naming convention changes etc. There should be
some  small
> changes in the interpreter and JIT to support the ldc CONSTANT_Class .
> There are possibly some minimal associated changes to the kernel classes
> also even without the full implementation of annotation, reflection etc.
> kernel classes as Alexey pointed out on the previous 1.5 thread.
>
> Rana
>
>
> On 6/22/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>>
>> There are modest changes to the classfile format that need to be
>> supported; once they are in place we can remove the compiler-hack.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tim
>>
>> Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
>> > It seems we're in general agreement that getting DRLVM to deal with
>> Java
>> > 5 classfiles is a good place to start.
>> >
>> > It supports our project desire to get off the target=jsr14 hack for
>> > compiling.
>> >
>> > So, for those that know the DRLVM codebase, what are the steps?
>> >
>> > Anyone who throws the One Big Patch over the wall will be summarily
>> > beaten about the head and neck with a trout, by the way, and we may
not
>> > defrost the trout first... lets use this as an exercise to start
>> > learning about the DRLVM and get people talking about how to do these
>> > things together, with small patches once we agree on the strategy :)
>> >
>> > geir
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html
>> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > For additional commands, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >
>> >
>>
>> --
>>
>> Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>> IBM Java technology centre, UK.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html
>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Reply via email to