On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:55:30PM -0700, Timothy Stack wrote: > > > howdy, > > So, as you might've seen we just released a new version of the JanosVM, > which is a modded version of Kaffe. For the most part we haven't changed > much in the original code base, but there have been a number of fixes and > added features that would be nice to port back to Kaffe. Unfortunately, I > can never find the time to do it all and was wondering if anynoe else > might want to take up the cause. Heres a list of some of the fixes: > > java.security package is up to date enough to run the bouncycastle > (www.bouncycastle.org) crypto library. > > New JAR file reader. > > Several fixes to satisfy Mauve tests, some of it overlaps with what > Mr. Topic has done, but I imagine there are some he hasn't gotten to > yet... > > Optimized the socket receives in unix-jthreads. > > Several misc. fixes (e.g. checking the return value of malloc). > > Probably some other stuff I've forgotten. > > I can provide a diff between a recent Kaffe and JanosVM, so it will mostly > be a matter of pulling out the good stuff and ignoring the rest.
Good stuff. I'll definitely take a look. A diff would be nice too. I grabbed a copy and archived it under ftp.kaffe.org:/pub/packages/janosvm (so I have a local handy, mostly). Cheers, - Jim
