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From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
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	Greg Lewis on Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:26:16 +1030 (CST))
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> > >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 :).

I agree, I just didn't know whether you had looked at the HotSpot source
code and decided that it was too hard to port.

Robert Swindells


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