These are really good news Dan! I think we could start writing test code for the runtime functionality like proper null checks, array bounds, class initialization, synchronization and such.
On 10/17/05, Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Everyone, > > I've been working hard on changes the bootjvm 0.0.0 > code that I contributed recently. There have been a > number of valuable critiques, especially involving > portability issues. I have taken a hard look at these > and found a number of things that need adjustment, > plus some plain ol' bugs. Some of these have to do > with structure packing, some with big-endian versus > little-endian processing. Thanks to everyone who > commented on the list and off on various of these > issues. Thanks in particular to Geir for his efforts > in porting the code to the CygWin environment and > his continuing effort porting it to the Max OS-X platform. > > When I am done checking in this round of changes, I will > label it as release 0.0.1. In addition to Geir's changes, it will > contain some improvements in the distribution procedures, > an all-around firming up in the documentation, adjustments > to the (optional) Eclipse build procedures, a structural change > to the JVM stack frame layout, portability and architecture > fixes, improved diagnostic message utilities, more of the > JVM opcodes are implemented, and some minor bug fixes. > > This will enable me to get back into finishing up the one module > I was still working on when the initial code was contributed, > namely the final round of JVM opcodes as found in the source > 'jvm/src/opcode.c'. When I finish up this module, we will have > a real, live, working JVM. It will be labled as release 0.0.2. > > At that point, we will need everyone's help working on regression > testing, especially with real, live Java class files so we can test > the strength of the JVM instruction implementation. We will need > to add native support to things like exit(), open(), close(), println() > and other OS calls, plus a number of other items. A list will be > forthcoming as to how you can get involved in helping to make > this JVM into a living, breathing component of Harmony. > > Thanks to everyone who has contributed and commented to date > on my work. I look forward to working with all of you! > > Best regards, > > Dan Lydick > > > P.S. I'm going to be using this project-specific e-mail address for > correspondence concerning the bootstrap JVM so that I can hopefully > organize myself better, keeping BootJVM issues all together and not > accidentally miss any correspondence. My SVN commits will have my > main e-mail address on it so the repository is not aliased, but I hope to > do all the talking on this one. Thanks again. > >
