your patch looks good to me, so I'd like to check it in. But ...
I don't know if Ito asked you about your clean-room status, so (since you've been actively developping patches for kaffe in the last few days), I'd like to know what your cleanroom status is before I apply further patches.
I need your confirmation that you're not 'tainted', i.e. have looked at Sun's sources, decompiled their class libraries, or signed an NDA preventing you from contributing to a free java effort.
It may sound like too much legalese, but we need to protect you and ourselves from somebody pulling an SCO on us. ;)
See http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/docs/hacking.html#SEC2 for more information on Classpath's definition of clean-room conditions. They are the same for kaffe, except that we don't ask for copyright assignment to the FSF."
This is basically the same as was on the old kaffe web page: http://web.archive.org/web/20010605073259/http://www.kaffe.org/develop.html#cleanroom
"You say Kaffe is a cleanroom effort: Can anybody contribute? What requirements are there?
Since Kaffe is a cleanroom effort, you cannot contribute to Kaffe if you are under a non-disclosure agreement with Sun. If you have doubts about your ability to contribute, contact the Kaffe core team.
Secondly, you must not refer to any Sun code while working on Kaffe. Specifically, you may not look at the sources that Sun distributes with their JDK (i.e., src.zip) under any circumstances. You also may not disassemble their classes. It is, however, okay for you to download their JDK and use it for purposes of comparison. If you have specific questions, contact the Kaffe core team.
If you are granted write access to the CVS repository, we will ask you to sign a statement confirming your cleanroom status."
We don't do the signing bit anymore since the project woke up again last year. Instead I prefer to ask people about their clean-room status when they submit patches.
That being said, I'd like to encourage you to keep up the good work. If you continue "flooding" us with good patches, I'll ask Jim to grant you CVS access. So, if I understand everything correctly, kaffe, when compiled on mipsel-linux, can build the class library (using kjc) with your patch & jit3? That would be quite huge.
cheers, dalibor topic
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