Hi, We have commented out all the stack trace handling code etc. in the NT exception handing code in drlvm to get the same binary image to run on an old OS like W2K. I am sorry, but I disagree with this approach. We cannot compile sources meant for XP/W2003 and expect the binaries to run on lower Windows OS's. Now we are hitting problems with the vectored exception handlers which also don't exist on W2K. We cannot comment these out also! As Alexey has pointed out, we need to guard the code with the right _WIN32_WINT guards. The define is 0x501 on XP and 0x502 on W2003. Unless someone has objects, I am going to turn all this code back on with the right _WINT filters. VEH is a feature in the new Windows code base ( the kernel, debug etc. are common to both OS's and quite different from W2K ). If we want to support W2K, we will need to rewrite the relevant excpetion handling portions and do a build for W2K seperately. The DRLVM code has not been tested on W2K. There could be more problems. Worse, the code will resolve the symbols, but behave differently. A part of the problem is that we haven't defined the minimum machine model where we want our code to be supported. I would propose that for x86-W32, we define it as Intel Pentium IV and WinXP and Windows Server 2003. This would allow us to get away from all these lower level kernel support and also allow us to avoid doing a lot of unnecessary JIT floating point work. If we want to support W2K and older machines Pentium III, we will need to make all the code changes needed for it and also test it on the down level machines.
Thanks, Rana On 8/7/06, Ivanov, Alexey A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>-----Original Message----- >From: Paulex Yang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 7:57 AM >To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: [general] new snapshots up early morning... is the win2k >problem gone? > >Sorry for response so late, I must get to office for a win2k PC... > >Just tried it, the dgbhelp.dll error gone, but another one emerge: > >"Cannot locate entry AddVectoredExceptionHandler at kernel32.dll" >(translate from Chinese so probably you'll get a slightly different >message from this) AFAIK this feature (vectored exceptions) is available in Windows XP only. So it seems we need separate build for Win2K. Regards, Alexey. > >Env: >win2k+sp4 >.net framework 1.1 >Windows PlatformSDK for Win2003 > >Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >> can anyone test? >> >> geir >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > >-- >Paulex Yang >China Software Development Lab >IBM > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alexey A. Ivanov Intel Middleware Product Division --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
