Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:26:16 +1030 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> To: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pre-alpha JDK 1.2.2 patches -- issues Message-ID: <200003220056.LAA05197@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200003220009.AAA00583@fdy2.demon.co.uk> from Robert Swindells at "Mar 22, 2000 00:09:41 am"
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Hi Robert, > >5. Sun JIT compiler. > > It appears that the Sun JIT compiler (libsunwjit.so) is supplied as a > > precompiled Solaris x86 binary without source code. This leaves us > > rather hamstrung in getting this to work. I can only assume that the > > Blackdown folk got access to the source code from Sun. It does, however, > > mean that one gets a lot of annoying messages about it not being > > able to be loaded. Whats needed here, for the moment, is for someone > > to look into preventing this attempt to load it as the default JIT (to > > avoid those annoying messages :). > > Do you think it is worth spending time trying to get libsunwjit to work > instead of porting HotSpot ? > > Robert Swindells I don't see how we can get libsunwjit to work without the source code. Nate has since related that Blackdown got a precompiled version from one of the Sun engineers. I think we're pretty much at a dead end with this the Sun JIT compiler unless someone at Sun decides to help us out :). -- 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
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