Re: GNU Classpath 0.14 released

2005-03-18 Thread Chris Pickett
Stephen Crawley wrote: Etienne, Please take this discussion off the classpath mailing lists. I respectfully disagree with this request. There are clearly issues between the SableVM hackers and other Classpath-using VM authors and Classpath contributors, and everybody knows that there have been

Re: GNU Classpath 0.14 released

2005-03-18 Thread Chris Pickett
Mark Wielaard wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 16:18 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: Etienne == Etienne Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Etienne As usual, Mark has forgotten to include SableVM in the list Etienne of runtimes that use GNU Classpath. It is understandable, I Etienne guess, as he does not use

Re: GNU Classpath 0.14 released

2005-03-18 Thread Chris Pickett
Chris Pickett wrote: Mark Wielaard wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 16:18 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: Etienne == Etienne Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Etienne As usual, Mark has forgotten to include SableVM in the list Etienne of runtimes that use GNU Classpath. It is understandable, I Etienne guess

Re: GNU Classpath 0.14 released

2005-03-17 Thread Chris Pickett
C. Brian Jones wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 13:12, Mark Wielaard wrote: GNU Classpath delivers core libraries for upcoming GCC and Kaffe releases We are pleased to announce a new developer snapshot release of GNU Classpath. I think we're all excited about the upcoming gcc and kaffe releases.

Re: Unstructured locking bug

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Pickett
Tom Tromey wrote: Bryce == Bryce McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bryce Certainly, bytecode isn't allowed to do this kind of thing, but I'm Bryce not sure if the structured locking rules in the VM spec are meant to Bryce apply to native code. For example, wait() would be impossible to Bryce

Re: Unstructured locking bug

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Pickett
Chris Pickett wrote: Tom Tromey wrote: Bryce == Bryce McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bryce Certainly, bytecode isn't allowed to do this kind of thing, but I'm Bryce not sure if the structured locking rules in the VM spec are meant to Bryce apply to native code. For example, wait() would

Re: benchmarks (was Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?)

2005-03-09 Thread Chris Pickett
David P Grove wrote: I should have confined myself to giving you a pointer to the benchmark suite. Discussion of licensing issues of non-classpath code is basically off topic spam on this list and I apologize for starting it. There are better places for these kinds of never ending

Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Pickett
Chris Pickett wrote: I think this kind of automated testing/regression testing for Classpath VM's is a great idea. s/automated testing/automated compatability/ If it's possible, some performance numbers would be interesting so we find discrepancies between there VM's there as well. s/between

benchmarks (was Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?)

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Pickett
Hi David, That's a non-free license. http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/DaCapo/gcbm.html#License_and_copyright This is generally what's accepted to define free software: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Maybe we need a replacement for DaCapo as well. Thanks for the suggestion though, it's

Re: benchmarks (was Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?)

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Pickett
David P Grove wrote: I think you need to understand the point of the benchmark suite. The whole goal is reproducible science, so if someone doesn't cite the exact version of the benchmarks, then it isn't useful (in an academic sense). The license forces that plus proper academic credit (ie a

Re: benchmarks (was Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?)

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Pickett
Chris Pickett wrote: Perhaps a replacement for DaCapo and SPECjvm98 is not in order: this would make comparison with other papers in the literature difficult and just confuse the issue. So, how about a good *companion* suite then? By the way, Ashes was started as a free testing framework

Re: benchmarks (was Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?)

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Pickett
Chris Pickett wrote: Chris Pickett wrote: Perhaps a replacement for DaCapo and SPECjvm98 is not in order: this would make comparison with other papers in the literature difficult and just confuse the issue. So, how about a good *companion* suite then? By the way, Ashes was started as a free

Re: List of GNU Classpath compatible programs

2005-03-02 Thread Chris Pickett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering why the 'description' is the last entry where I expected it to be the first, just below the title of the product. Any problem with me changing that? I'd like to make it more of a single-line advertisement for the application as well; this makes developers of

Re: [Fwd: Escape the Java Trap @ Fosdem2005]

2005-03-01 Thread Chris Pickett
Mark Wielaard wrote: Hi Chris, On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 15:13 +0100, Chris Gray wrote: Sorry I didn't make it to Fosdem, everybody. Came back from Nuernberg with a nasty case of griep ('flu), from which I'm only just recovering. See you all at the next get-together, I hope. Thanks for not

Re: need testing on SMP machines

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Pickett
Christian Thalinger wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 23:06 -0500, Chris Pickett wrote: Can some people run the attached (and shockingly simple) code 1000 times on some multiprocessor machines using free VM's other than SableVM, where the VM will get control of two or more processors, and report

need testing on SMP machines

2005-02-08 Thread Chris Pickett
Hi, Can some people run the attached (and shockingly simple) code 1000 times on some multiprocessor machines using free VM's other than SableVM, where the VM will get control of two or more processors, and report if there are any exceptions or segfaults? I use: $ for num in `seq 1 1000`; do

Re: Need bug confirmation

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Pickett
Archie Cobbs wrote: Hi, I was wondering if some other Classpath developers could confirm this bug. I'm trying to rule it out as being JC-specific. The problem is that the Logger has a level of null instead of FINE: With JDK 1.4.2: [EMAIL PROTECTED] level=FINE Feb 5, 2005 2:53:25 PM LogInit

Re: Need bug confirmation

2005-02-05 Thread Chris Pickett
Archie Cobbs wrote: Chris Pickett wrote: I was wondering if some other Classpath developers could confirm this bug. I'm trying to rule it out as being JC-specific. The problem is that the Logger has a level of null instead of FINE: With JDK 1.4.2: [EMAIL PROTECTED] level=FINE Feb 5, 2005 2:53

Re: Visual mauve test?

2004-12-14 Thread Chris Pickett
Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:44 +0100, Thomas Zander wrote: Would anyone have problems with me committing a mauve test that opens a Window for a very little time? No, we can't do this yet, but it's something we should work on. We need to put a gui testing framework in

Re: Which JVM?

2004-12-13 Thread Chris Pickett
Dalibor Topic wrote: Thomas Zander wrote: Kaffe: looks dead; last development release almost a year ago (not to mention stable releases) And I've heard that netcraft confirms it's dead ... :) What's it like being dead? I've heard that your hair and fingernails don't really keep growing, it's

Re: Visual mauve test?

2004-12-13 Thread Chris Pickett
Thomas Zander wrote: Would anyone have problems with me committing a mauve test that opens a Window for a very little time? See attached test. Next to that; I would like to ask for your expertise to see if I made a mistake, or if there is a bug in classpath/jamvm. The statement on line 75

Re: Memory leak in java.lang.Thread ?

2004-12-08 Thread Chris Pickett
Jeroen Frijters wrote: Archie Cobbs wrote: Perhaps we should add a comment to the Javadoc for Thread.java like instances of Thread are not garbage collected until either they run and terminate or their ThreadGroup and all contained Threads are no longer referenced. Agreed. I'm (almost) always in

SMP problems (was Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0)

2004-11-13 Thread Chris Pickett
Robert Lougher wrote: Hi all, On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:58:53 +0100, Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Eclipse 3 (but not 2) startup problem seems to only happen on SMP machine (it disappears when I don't use a SMP kernel, this is on a Intel hyperthreading system) with jamvm [*]. It works

Re: SMP problems (was Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0)

2004-11-13 Thread Chris Pickett
sorry, please CC responses to that last message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris Chris Pickett wrote: Robert Lougher wrote: Hi all, On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:58:53 +0100, Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Eclipse 3 (but not 2) startup problem seems to only happen

Re: SMP problems (was Re: GNU Classpath 0.12, ..., 1.0)

2004-11-13 Thread Chris Pickett
or [EMAIL PROTECTED] even. my apologies, i'm really tired, i already retyped the whole email once b/c i made thunderbird die. chris Chris Pickett wrote: sorry, please CC responses to that last message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris Chris Pickett wrote: Robert

Re: bug 10491 was Re: More astonishing progress in japi scores

2004-10-07 Thread Chris Pickett
Archie Cobbs wrote: Per Bothner wrote: If the strtod in glibc is threadsafe *and* accurate, then we should probably use it, at least as a default. Dalibor Topic said on IRC that it has some problems on Irix. So it might not be a good idea. So perhaps adding a special case would be best, or you

Re: (no subject)

2004-07-28 Thread Chris Pickett
Valentin Chira wrote: Hi guys, I wanna try to port a Java VM to BeOS R5 but I have problem finding a VM that is full featured and easy to port. Can you help me with an advice? Hi Valentin, Try SableVM, it's highly portable if POSIX libraries are available. http://www.sablevm.org You can probably

Re: license question

2004-07-20 Thread Chris Pickett
Chris Gray wrote: On Tuesday 20 July 2004 03:36, Bryce McKinlay wrote: Ben Hinkle wrote: I'd like to port the Collections implementation in Classpath to another language called D that is very similar to Java and I'm trying to figure out the Classpath license. My question is simple: what license

Re: Patch: merge File.toURI() from Classpath

2004-07-07 Thread Chris Pickett
David Daney wrote: Stephen Crawley writes: I'm also going to submit a bug report about the JDK's widespread abuse of RuntimeException. IMO, they should either throw InternalError (or its replacement) or they should define some appropriate subtypes of RuntimeException and throw those. I agree.

Re: [Sablevm-developer] sablevm-classpath broken in staging?

2004-04-30 Thread Chris Pickett
Chris Pickett wrote: I couldn't find ifnotplaintext in google, and I couldn't find it in `info texinfo` using 'i ifnotplaintext' either. Tomorrow I'll try installing the latest texinfo (4.7) and see if that fixes things. I checked in Google again and ifnotplaintext turned up a link to texinfo