On 10/26/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mikhail Fursov wrote: > Folks, > I'm preparing the first patch with VM helpers inlining framework > implementation. > The Java fast-path helpers use org.vmmagic.unboxed classes (or "magic" > classes ) to use address arithmetic in helpers. That is the mmtk.jar is > required to build these classes. > The problem is that I do not know what is the best place to put mmtk.jar . > Should we make it downloadable from some 3rd party page? My vote is -1 > here. Why not? We do that for everything else, where we can.
I agree with Geir. Its best to try to stay out of the business of warehousing 3rd party stuff. Let's download MMTk.jar from a web page during "build fetch-depends". We can change this if it causes problems. Robin Garner, can you help us with this? What is the best URL for this?
Let's be careful about what is in the JAR. > Could we put it directly into SVN? I'm +1 here. We have to decide only > about > a folder name. > > Any thoughts? >
-- Weldon Washburn Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division
