From owner-freebsd-java Tue Mar 21 16:57: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.246.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A67237B98C for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:56:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05197; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:26:16 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <200003220056.LAA05197@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Pre-alpha JDK 1.2.2 patches -- issues In-Reply-To: <200003220009.AAA00583@fdy2.demon.co.uk> from Robert Swindells at "Mar 22, 2000 00:09:41 am" To: Robert Swindells Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:26:16 +1030 (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 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