Re: Quality control and FOSS rant

And in case anyone is under any illusions, Sun's record of fixing bugs (and not re-breaking them) is poor. The number #1 voted bug* in their bug database has been unfixed for over 5 YEARS! -Archie * http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4670071 -- Archie L. Cobbs

Re: jboss-4.0.4

7;ve never tried JBoss. If you want to try it, use the harmony version because it's more up to date: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/harmony/enhanced/jchevm Cheers, -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *

Harmony's Classpath adapter

course on the Harmony mailing list is lots more info, etc. Cheers, -Archie P.S. This email is purely informational (i.e., don't blame me if you think Harmony is stupid in the first place). __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: javah

I'm happy to send the code to anybody who wants it. It depends on the classpath getopt code. FWIW.. if a pure-C implementation is needed we could adapt the one in JCVM. Sometimes it's nice to not require a JVM to run javah. -Archie _______

Re: Mauve reports

ht be possible that Mark gives you access to the machine so you can set this up yourself? That'd be fine with me... just let me know what I need to do. Thanks, -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix*

Re: Mauve reports

lied patch). Thanks, -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: Beanshell support for Mauve

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Re: running pscan, rats. flawfinder and splint on classpath

e you asked for (e.g., OutOfMemoryError or somesuch)". -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: Green threads - some experience

Ian Rogers wrote: Archie Cobbs wrote: IMHO using POSIX threads is the only "right" answer for a multi-platform JVM. You have no other choice except to leave it up to the specific platform to then implement POSIX threads efficiently. For example, on Linux where each POSIX thread i

Re: Green threads - some experience

g else. Good to hear that :-) -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: Green threads - some experience

s a cloned process, it's Linux's fault (not the JVM's fault) if that doesn't scale well. For example, other OS's don't have such heavyweight threads. FreeBSD's KSE's are an example of a better tradeoff using M:N user:kernel threading. -Archie _____

Re: Datetypes for native target layer functions

My opinion.. use both native and JNI types. The specific siutation will dictate what to do. Uses casts as required. Etc. This probably sounds simplistic. Maybe a specific example would make the issue clearer.. -Archie __ A

Re: RFC: VMClassLoader changes proposition

an save me work has my vote :-) -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: Where's the love?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: Where's the love?

x27; permission. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: Real questions

pection via the Apache SVN server if you want to have a look. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: RFC: Removing unused import

tch. But before proceeding, I'd like to ask: 1- is it useful; It's useful.. but first verify that the tool is javadoc-aware. E.g., some imports may only be used in javadoc comments (in theory). -Archie ______ Archi

Re: Where's the love?

They believe they can't just use Classpath for license reasons (this part I don't fully understand). Re #3 I've not been following it. -Archie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: JNI calls that don't return

the VM would also have to implement it). -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: dacapo xalan

JLS is only relevant to compilers, not runtimes. JVMs follow the JVM specification, which allows native methods to throw unchekced exceptions. -Archie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http

Re: JNI calls that don't return

theory) no need to wait for it to return in order to do anything. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: Classpath on Cygwin: HOWTO

Enrico Migliore wrote: I'm using Classpath with Archie Cobbs' JCHEVM virtual machine, and I'm writing another document that explains how to build JCHEVM on Cygwin. If you think it might be of interest, I'll post this second document too. The latter document (building

Re: Next release

ot a big deal really, but that's my $0.02 anyway... -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: Mauve license

' religious beliefs. So if the GPL is not otherwise in the way, I have no problem working with it, etc. "Can't we all just get along?" :-) -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: Mauve license

er" then you can read the "official" one in the GPL FAQ... -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: Mauve license

e it, and in any case that seems like an orthogonal issue. -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: Hashtable's and the tale of runtime

n a 32-bit machine and all the object addresses are less than 0x8000.. won't that give you the same result as just returning (jint)obj ? -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: Classpath on Cgwin: UnsatisfiedLinkError problem

s have the same issue (if they want to run on cygwin). Has anyone already solved this problem? Enrico: the relevant macro is _JC_LIBRARY_FMT in definitions.h. Perhaps you can play with some possibilities there. Thanks, -Archie ____

Re: New native layer

or all platforms that need it, now and in the future. The "layer" idea is too big a level of granularity to be porting at. We should be porting more like at the function call and macro level. -Archie ______ Ar

Re: SecurityManager troubles

VM startup issues :-) You're right that ClassNotFoundException would be more appropriate still than Exception. Then the code is clearest about what exactly is intended. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix

Re: SecurityManager troubles

e appropriate to only catch Exception, not Throwable. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu

Re: SecurityManager troubles

uld use it. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: SecurityManager troubles

tually witnessed the problem so can't really say for sure without additional info. It would be nice however to get to the bottom of it before 0.20... -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix*

Re: NIO (Non-block & Scatter/Gather)

t .. because it's C they're implicit :-) The right thing will happen. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpat

Re: SecurityManager troubles

oes NOT in kaffe, otherwise the above example couldn't happen. Hmm, maybe System.setSecurityManager() can do a "phony" invocation of s.checkPermission() to ensure that it's resolved... -Archie ______ Archie Co

Re: Assertion failure

Archie Cobbs wrote: Mark Wielaard wrote: BTW, does anybody know why we are not using the system strtod() when available? That seems the way to the quickest solution on most platforms. It seems to work with some simple tests for me. But I notice that there is no strtod_r(), just strtod(). But I

Re: Assertion failure

'm not familiar enough with the code to understand whether using the system strtod(3) would avoid this assertion failure, which appears to come from "Balloc" in mprec.c. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *

Assertion failure

ude D810). -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: lists.gnu.org and savannah.gnu.org (CVS) updates

n do with SVN, plus a lot more. -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: lists.gnu.org and savannah.gnu.org (CVS) updates

this new infrastructure include possible a switchover from CVS to Subversion? (I'm so used to SVN now that CVS is gotten pretty gross to deal with). -Archie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix*

Re: Kerberos

Jeff Bailey wrote: Sorry, I chose my words poorly there. By 'native' I meant "Done in Java". Is there a better word that means that? =) "Pure Java"... ? -Archie ______ Archie C

Announcing JCVM release 1.4.7

VMStackWalker.getClassContext(). - Upgrade to Classpath 0.19. Cheers, -Archie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org

Re: Infinite loop

in there are too. VMStackWalker can only be used by classes loaded via the boot loader (see comment at the top). -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.aw

Re: Infinite loop

rchie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com Index: VMStackWalker.java === RCS file: /cvsroot/classpath/classpath/vm/reference/gnu/clas

Infinite loop

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Re: configure failure

Christian Thalinger wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:50:40AM -0600, Archie Cobbs wrote: $ rpm -qa | grep freetype freetype-2.1.3-6 freetype-devel-2.1.3-6 $ rpm -ql freetype | grep '\.pc' $ I'm not educated on the wonders of pkg-config. Where do I find freetype2.pc and why i

configure failure

-ql freetype | grep '\.pc' $ I'm not educated on the wonders of pkg-config. Where do I find freetype2.pc and why isn't it on this system? Thanks, -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Aw

Re: Updated FreeSwingTestApps

added it to the wiki. Download instructions, etc. are on the home page, no need to repeat. You can add more details on the "obscure error" if you want to. Thanks, -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *C

Re: Updated FreeSwingTestApps

s the graphics toolkit very heavily. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: Has someone experimented with jedit?

trying: http://pollo.sourceforge.net/ Pollo is a graphical XML editor. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Cl

Re: Persuading the apaches

uld agree to that. Cheers, -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Announcing JC virtual machine release 1.4.6

. - Throw IllegalArgumentException instead of IllegalAccessException when attempting to retrieve an invalid field via reflection. - Upgrade to Classpath 0.17. http://jcvm.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs

Re: JNI assertion failure

I checked in the aforementioned assertion patch. 2005-07-25 Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * native/jni/classpath/native_state.c: add assertion for object type -Archie __ Archie Cobbs *

Re: JNI assertion failure

Thanks, -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com Index: native/jni/classpath/native_state.c === RCS file: /cvsroot/clas

Re: JNI assertion failure

Archie Cobbs wrote: With Classpath 0.16, trying to run a very simple Swing demo under JCVM, I get a JNI assertion failure in a call to GetIntField(), because the object type and the fieldID are not compatible: gnu/java/awt/peer/gtk/[EMAIL PROTECTED] not instance of gnu/java/awt/peer/gtk

Re: Implementation details of VMStackWalker

small) loss of efficiency. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: Implementation details of VMStackWalker

shed some light? -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: hasClassInitializer and exception

initialization ahead of time: Class.forName(cl.getName(), true, cl.getClassLoader()); Then we'll know that any exception thrown in the JNI code is not an initializer exception. -Archie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, A

Re: String class: hack for ORP 1.0.9

not necessary. With array clone(), also typically a native method, none of that checking is ever needed. This is a good example of the advandages of a JVM written in Java (a coincidence? :-) There is no "optimization barrier" into "native" code like System.arraycopy(). -

Re: String.equals optimisation

f memory" with "waste of memory" :-) -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: String class: hack for ORP 1.0.9

rchie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: String.equals optimisation

l" answer lies in empirical testing (something I can't claim to have done). -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Cla

Re: regression in logger?

n only happen if the VM doesn't return Throwable stack traces. Is this with 0.16? There were recent changes in the VMThrowable class (see NEWS) that might need to be followed in Jikes RVM. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *

Fix for java/net/URLClassLoader

This patch (checked in) fixes two Mauve tests and removes some obsolete code. 2005-07-09 Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * java/net/URLClassLoader.java: disallow directories as resources -Archie __

Re: JNI assertion failure

Archie Cobbs wrote: With Classpath 0.16, trying to run a very simple Swing demo under JCVM, I get a JNI assertion failure in a call to GetIntField(), because the object type and the fieldID are not compatible: gnu/java/awt/peer/gtk/[EMAIL PROTECTED] not instance of gnu/java/awt/peer/gtk

JNI assertion failure

ook at the above trace and error? Thanks, -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lis

Fix for configure test

2005-07-03 Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * m4/acinclude.m4: fix broken expr(1) syntax -Archie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com Index: m4/acincl

Re: How to handle properties file

27;ll also need a header file. I don't have time to do this right now (I'm slow when it comes to automake, etc.) but can help get the source files ready for import, etc. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awa

Re: How to handle properties file

tructures.h -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

API cleanup

__ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: How to handle properties file

s supposed to be? -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: How to handle properties file

e more familiar with this class care to comment? -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://l

Re: API clean up patch

exception object was dead. I think a patch for this would not be reasonable, as long as it played well with other VMs and had a big explanatory comment. That's a neat idea.. I hadn't thought of that. -Archie ____

Re: API clean up patch

fs to be as small as possible. To achieve this, I'm willing to adapt to the VM interface as Classpath defines it, to the extent I can. But when that interface is inherently broken, there's no way to do that. -Archie _______

Re: API clean up patch

7;s do similar things. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: API clean up patch

MThrowable.getStackTrace() will be native? I'm not trying to assume anything. I'm only trying to make it at least theoretically possible for a VM to use Classpath unmodified and still function properly. Thanks, -Archie _________

Re: API clean up patch

nt. However, it would be fine by me if someone wanted to move the native methods into VMFoo classes. Thanks, -Archie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com

Re: API clean up patch

Jeroen Frijters wrote: Thanks. Looks good. The only change I would make is to make vmdata in ClassLoader package accessible instead of private. Good point.. I'll make that change. Thanks, -Archie __ Archie

Announcing JC virtual machine 1.4.5

.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

API clean up patch

- Removed deprecated methods from VMClassLoader Let me know what you think. Yes this changes the API, but IMHO until the major version number of Classpath is a non-zero number we shouldn't worry about that too much.. better to clean house now while we still can.. Thanks, -Archie ___

Announcing JC virtual machine release 1.4.4

net/ Cheers, -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: can Mauve help me test a PersonalJava implementation?

s for such a compiler? I've only ever used Sun (or blackdown) JDKs. Will Jikes help? Just compile with "-target 1.4" (or whatever). -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* h

Re: Proposal: merge Jessie as an external project

ealized then I guess I'm satisfied.. though I still think it's a bad idea to have copies of code that originates elsewhere actually checked in to our repo. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix

Re: Proposal: merge Jessie as an external project

whereas you are looking at it as the latter type of thing. As Classpath exists right now it seems a lot more like the former. Instead of trying to morph it into a JDK/JRE replacement, let's create a separate project to do that. I'm curious what other Classpa

Re: Proposal: merge Jessie as an external project

should (IMHO) simply be an implementation of the core Java classes, nothing more. If you want the full monty, it's easy to put that together, but don't force it on every one. Cheers, -Archie ____

Re: NIO charsets attacked by gang of rabid platypi

from the usefulness of using speed as a generic criterion. -Archie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gn

Re: RPM spec file?

stration :-) -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: RPM spec file?

Andy Walter wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 00:32, Archie Cobbs wrote: Who do I ask about building a Debian package for JC? Are you sure you want to manually create rpm and deb packages? Thanks for the link... looks interesting. Preferably someone *else* would build the packages :-) This is how

Re: RPM spec file

m, but I don't know how that worked out. Certainly that can be done, at least for version_num. The release_num is really up to the packager I suppose. I've checked it into the scripts/ subdirectory: 2005-03-22 Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * configure.ac:

JC virtual machine release 1.4.0

des a bytecode interpreter, and supports execution in either or mixed modes. http://jcvm.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, -Archie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awari

RPM spec file

URL: http://www.classpath.org/ BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root BuildRequires: jikes, zip Packager: Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/classpath/classpath-%{version_num}.tar.gz %description GNU Classpath, Essential Libraries for Java, is a GNU project to create

Re: RPM spec file?

of packages that can then depend directly on a classpath package. (Sorry if this is straying off-topic...) Who do I ask about building a Debian package for JC? Thanks, -Archie ______ Archie Co

Re: GNU Classpath 0.14 released

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RPM spec file?

b", "classpath-mail", etc. RPMs.. but none for Classpath. -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing lis

Re: benchmarks (was Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?)

h the world a natural consequence of good software conduct? :-) :-) -AC __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gn

Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?

ck up on the web. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?

e and then do it, keep them updated, etc. This can perhaps be automated, etc. -Archie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?

upposed to represent what "run anywhere" actually looks like. -Archie ______ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath maili

Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?

all. Thanks, -Archie __________ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: CORBA

-foobar etc. Otherwise things may get to be too monolithic (i.e., inflexible). In particular I'm thinking of embedded system applications, which may only want/need a subset of the whole shebang. -Archie __ Archie

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