This is what guessed was your intention. I fiddle with something, based on the bits we already have, this weekend and publish it for discussion soon.
Thanks. -Nathan > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Ellison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 10:24 AM > To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [classlib][concurrent] Next IBM VME request > > Just revisiting this thread -- and even I can't decipher what I wrote as > I ran out the door. > > Let me try again. Rather than put sun.misc.Unsafe into luni-kernel I > suggest that we have an o.a.h.kernel.vm.Risky[1] type containing just > the relevant subset of operations that we need for concurrent to work, > and put that subset into kernel. Then we can implement Unsafe in terms > of those methods and work on convincing the concurrency group to > generalize their impl. > > Once we have the Harmony subset defined I can look at getting them into > the IBM VME. > > [1] or o.a.h.concurrent... package, or whatever we decide. > > Regards, > Tim > > Tim Ellison wrote: > > Nathan Beyer wrote: > >> For those kind souls working that help release the IBM VME, I'd like to > ask > >> for an implementation of the "sun.misc.Unsafe" interface for the next > >> release to facilitate the 'concurrent' modules continued development. > As > >> such, the only portion of the Unsafe class that would need to be > implemented > >> is what's defined in the 'luni-kernel' module. Additionally, the > >> 'concurrent' module has one other requirement and that's the > implementation > >> of a native method in AtomicLong [1]. My initial goal it to be able to > >> enable all of the tests in the 'concurrent' module's build (all tests > are > >> currently disabled). > > > > Hey Nathan -- I'm just about to set off for a few days, but briefly, I'd > > expect that we'd agree on an addition to the luni kernel for some > > o.a.h.FooBar type that has the required functionality, and create > > sun.misc in the suncompat component. > > > > Regards, > > Tim > > > >> Let me and the list know how we can help if there's anything needed. > Thanks. > >> > >> > >> > >> -Nathan > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> [1] private static native boolean VMSupportsCS8(); > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > IBM Java technology centre, UK. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
