Re: hg: mlvm/mlvm/jdk: indy: first cut of support for new classfile features in JDK7

2011-09-12 Thread John Rose
On Sep 11, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Mark Roos wrote: Where would I look for the features being added? In general is there a place where pending changes are listed? One of the 'bug' lists perhaps. Nothing new here: The new classfile features are those in JDK 7 (JSR 292): the invokedynamic

Re: Hotspot loves PHP.reboot / stack capturing exception

2011-09-12 Thread Thomas Wuerthinger
On 09.09.2011 03:00, John Rose wrote: On Sep 8, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Thomas Wuerthinger wrote: The operand stack and locals manipulation in the generated bytecodes must exactly match the manipulations done by the scripting interpreter, but I think that it is possible to align those (although

Re: Hotspot loves PHP.reboot / stack capturing exception

2011-09-12 Thread John Rose
On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Thomas Wuerthinger wrote: If this special exception class is declared as a checked exception, a method would itself chose if its stack is exposed or not based on its throws clause. I think in that case the possible exploitations are less than reflection

hg: mlvm/mlvm: add bsd-port patch to forest root

2011-09-12 Thread john . r . rose
Changeset: a5e9cf599de1 Author:jrose Date: 2011-09-12 17:43 -0700 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/rev/a5e9cf599de1 add bsd-port patch to forest root + forest-root/jdk7-b147-to-bsd-port.patch + forest-root/series ! make/Makefile ! make/each-patch-repo.sh !

Re: are there changes for building mlvm now that 1.7 is released?

2011-09-12 Thread John Rose
On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:10 AM, Michael Barker wrote: Please give it a whirl and let me know what breaks. I have a working build on Mac OS X Lion with gcc-4.2. I started with stephenb's MLVM build scripts. Excellent work. Did you have to use patches/hotspot/snowleopard.patch for gcc-4.2, or