From owner-freebsd-java Fri Aug 18 18:55:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au (ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.246.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E3D37B422 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05209; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:24:36 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <200008190154.LAA05209@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: More on custom invokers for JDK In-Reply-To: from Max Khon at "Aug 11, 2000 04:55:30 pm" To: Max Khon Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:24:36 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL70 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Max Khon wrote: > hi, there! > > On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > > I've written up a little on what invokeNative_alpha.s and companions are > > really for. Critisism (this is a word?) and comments are welcome. > > > > http://web.inter.nl.net/users/kjkoster/java/index.html > > click on "invokeNative_alpha.s" under "Alpha Arch. Build". > > > > Mildly interesting look into how Java deals with native functions under > > water too, and I have again learned a little about C. > > gdb has generic function invoker written in C (look into valops.c) > > /fjoe True, but gdb is also GPL'ed, which makes any code from it unusable for the JDK. A good idea though. Anyone know if earlier debuggers (sdb and dbx come to mind) were Berkeley licensed or the like and where we'd find such source code? -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message