From owner-freebsd-java Tue Mar 21 18:37: 6 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 0D0E037BF5A for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:36:58 -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 NAA06011; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:06:32 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <200003220236.NAA06011@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Pre-alpha JDK 1.2.2 patches -- issues In-Reply-To: <200003220217.CAA01210@fdy2.demon.co.uk> from Robert Swindells at "Mar 22, 2000 02:17:58 am" To: Robert Swindells Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:06:32 +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 > >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 Sorry Robert, I had misunderstood your initial statement then :). To be honest, I haven't looked into Hot Spot at all. This is a good point to raise though, but first I want to get the JDK into alpha :). I'm starting to feel the need for a web page to keep track of things publicly, I'll look at setting one up this weekend. -- 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