On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> - Up to date documentation that at a minimum provides a reference like
> overview of what we have and what each class/method does. And clearly
> describes what is work in progress/non-functional stubs.
> (gjdoc really helps here. And our api doc is
On 22 Dec 2002, Anthony Green wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 04:23, Artur Biesiadowski wrote:
> > Do you think it is a good idea ?
>
> It's a great idea. Here is some evidence:
>
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/agile2d/index.shtml
Ah, we're talking about two different things. I have implemented
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Artur Biesiadowski wrote:
> I think that one of biggest problems is Graphics2D implementation. Doing
> it all in java would require very major undertaking - I do not see a
> chance of doing it by volunteers in any reasonable timeframe.
I actually have most of the Graphics2D
On 28 Sep 2002, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> You're changes are unlikely to be accepted if you mix style and
> logical changes.
But, luckily, 'cvs diff -U1' can come to the rescue. Do:
$ cvs diff -U1 some-directory-with-modified-files > my-changes
Now open my-changes in a text editor. You can remove
On 27 Sep 2002, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> > (*) to java.io.* classes that I'm working.
fwiw, i've got some implementations/fixes to java.awt.geom.*
that i'm working on (as part of the Gerber tools mentioned on
http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian/Projects/FabClass/
). I'm following existing codi
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> If classpath uses different implementations of java
> classes on different platforms the genuine
> serialVersionUID for the different implementations
> will obviously differ. I assume that Suns
> serialVersionUID is the same on all platforms, though;
>
Attached is a patch to move zeroBasedStringValue to java.lang.String (from
java.lang.Character) to avoid making java.lang.Character, java.lang.Class,
and java.security.ProtectionDomain "core classes".
--scott
[in addition to being attached, patch is also appended below for your
easy-reading plea
The recent change to java.lang.String (aug 13, v1.50) add a call to
Character.zeroBasedStringValue() which (inadvertently?) makes
java.lang.Character part of the "CORE CLASS" initializers (because String
is a core class, and the static initializer of String invokes a method in
Character, causing t
I'm not an ORP expert at all, but here's my guess:
> library is located at /usr/local/lib, but somehow is not found. I
> tried appending ':/usr/local/lib' to the recommended value for
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but that only caused an error recommending "remove
Try using adding -L/usr/local/lib to CFL
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Stephen Crawley wrote:
> However, a problem arises in the way that Kissme creates the first
> Thread object. Basically, we want to just use a regular constructor
> on the Thread class. The problem is that 4 argument constructor that
> all the others chain to assumes that
On 10 Sep 2002, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> StackFrame, ExecutionStack and StackTrace are a bit old. I don't know if
> there are VMs that still use these classes. For Throwable stack traces
> we now have java.lang.StackTraceElement and I will soon add my recent
> work on VMThrowable that I did for lib
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Daryl Lee wrote:
> 1. aclocal ran silently
[...]
> 3. automake produced:
> configure.in:18: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an
> configure.in:18: old Automake version. You should recreate aclocal.m4
> configure.in:18: with aclocal and run automake
Daryl Lee was recently attempting to build from CVS, and followed the
instructions in the INSTALL file. It was not obvious that CVS versions
of classpath should be built using the instructions in HACKING instead.
The appended patch (also attached for those with flakey mailers)
clarifies the docum
...the GNU classpath now works with the FLEX compiler,
http://flex-compiler.lcs.mit.edu
I just got 'Hello, world' working a few minutes ago. =)
The FLEX compiler bits are already very robust; now that the FLEX runtime
plays nicely with GNU classpath, I expect many other applications to work
co
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Daryl Lee wrote:
> I'm trying to build my first instance of classpath. I run the following sequence on
>a freshly checked out full source tree in the classpath directory:
[...]
> The automake pukes issues the following output:
> configure.in: 20: required file `./include/co
This is almost certainly a sablevm bug, and not a classpath bug.
I've cc'ed the sablevm-bugs list.
--scott
On 10 Sep 2002, Emile Snyder wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using the 1.0.3 version of sablevm, and it's associated classpath.
> I haven't managed to get a CVS-checked-out version of classpath
On 9 Sep 2002, John Leuner wrote:
> Can I commit this to CVS?
yes, please!
--scott
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( http://cscott.net/ )
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A few javadoc comments in vm/reference/java/lang/Thread.java have
"threat" instead of "thread". The appended patch corrects this.
--scott
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The VMObject.getClass() method should be removed, as it is not
VM-specific: it is implemented in terms of JNI calls (and gcj
has its own way of doing this in CNI). Furthermore, VMObject.getClass()
is never called anywhere in classpath, in particular not from
Object.getClass(). So I think VMObje
The gnu/vm/stack/StackFrame class has the following bit of code:
private StackFrame(Object obj, Method method, int lineNum, String filename) {
this.caller = caller;
}
Note that 'caller' is not an argument of the constructor. So the first
statement of the constructor is effectiv
ied, use LIBDIR instead of the library directory prefix that
+GNU \fIClasspath\fP was built with when computing the output for the
+\-\-classpath and \-\-libs options. This option must be specified before
+any \-\-libs or \-\-classpath options.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR gtk-config (1)
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copy
On 31 Jul 2002, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> I am still interested in how/why those Strings had a non-zero offset in
> the first place. Maybe a compiler/VM may do such a thing and then we
> have to take that into account in Character and String when we use them.
The bytecode compiler cannot do this, b
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, R.S. Veldema wrote:
> There are really a *kazillion* things not implemented/working yet in the
> swing implementation.
> Alas, awt needs to work properly also before debugging can truely start
> on swing using all
> and nothing but classpath.
However it's useful to note th
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Wu, Gansha wrote:
> We have GNU Classpath submissions that make ORP/GNU Classpath run typical
> commercial applications and workloads
[...]
> The submission includes bug fixes, performance enhancement,
> refactoring codes for
> better maintenance, and some new
On 17 Jul 2002, John Leuner wrote:
> The flex home page (and other pages) don't actually say that it's a java
> source to native code compiler.
well, it had ambitions to be a java-to-hardware compiler at one point
(sadly unmaintained) and it could do bytecode-to-bytecode optimizations at
a diff
On 17 Jul 2002, John Leuner wrote:
> Does FLEX have special requirements on the class library or it is it a
> normal java application? Or is it something beyond that?
It's a *research* Java-to-native compiler. "Research" means that it isn't
fast, doesn't care about separate compilation, and it'
On 16 Jul 2002, John Leuner wrote:
> After rewriting the class initializer code in kissme, I got to the
> following stage with the TestAWT program:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~jewel/kissme/shots/kissme_awt.png
>
> Unfortunately nothing else works, but it's a big improvement (previously
> a de
I checked out & played with gjdoc a bit tonight, and generated javadoc
HTML for classpath to test things out. As I was leafing through the
generated javadoc, I noticed a few typos and violations of the "first
sentence should be a summary" rule for javadoc comments. Attached is
a short & simple p
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Eric Blake wrote:
> "C. Scott Ananian" wrote:
> >
> > For what it's worth: often adding explicit bounds checks will enable the
> > compiler to create faster code (by hoisting these checks, and others which
> > are implicit in the
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Eric Blake wrote:
> Which is prefered, performing array bound checks throughout a method, or
> enclosing the algorithm in a try-catch block which converts an
> IndexOutOfBoundsException into a NumberFormatException?
For what it's worth: often adding explicit bounds checks wi
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Does anyone have a hint as to how the inner class methods of
> > java.lang.Class (getDeclaringClass, getClasses, etc.) would be implemented
> > by a JVM? Don't they depend on how the Java compiler implements inner
> > classes? AFAIK the JVM isn't
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> Does anyone have a hint as to how the inner class methods of
> java.lang.Class (getDeclaringClass, getClasses, etc.) would be implemented
> by a JVM? Don't they depend on how the Java compiler implements inner
> classes? AFAIK the JVM isn't aware of in
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Eric Blake wrote:
> No, I stand by my code. If the final loop ends with a negative result, it
> is necessarily MIN_VALUE, since otherwise there was overflow.
> But -MIN_VALUE == MIN_VALUE, so no harm is done! Compile it and see...
i stand corrected. i'll read the code mo
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Eric Blake wrote:
> if (negative)
> return -result;
> return result;
> }
you actually have to do this the other way 'round (maintain the number
negative as you build it, then negate it if the number was really
positive) because the negative range of the integ
On 26 Jul 2001, Brian Jones wrote:
> "R.S. Veldema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi, more bugs, changed the LOADING, COMPLETE, etc
> > from private to protected inside java.awt.MediaEntry
> > since they we're accessed inside java.awt.ImageMediaEntry
>
> Since ImageMediaEntry extends M
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Artur Biesiadowski wrote:
> > Any feedback on this idea?
>
> 1) Think about internationalization of error messages.
that's a red herring. completely independent of eric's proposal.
> 2) I think that if statement adds some bytecodes. As you end up with path
> for message e
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> > > + static final Class getPrimitiveClass(String type)
> > > + {
> > > +if ("int".equals (type))
> > > + return int.class;
>
> This method is also kind of inefficient, particularly if, as the doc says, it
> can be called "once per ClassLoa
On 21 Jul 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >> and VMLoader on sane VMs being:
>
> I assume you're characterizing libgcj as not-sane. I disagree with
> this characterization.
sorry, that *was* a bit inflammatory. I meant something closer to, "VMs
which will execute classpath as compiled to bytecode b
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> (I know someone who once had a usable libgcj runtime in 28KB of memory.
> I'll grant that that takes a lot of hacking anyway... he didn't even have
> a String class in his runtime.)
okay, how about:
class Boolean {
Class TYPE = VMLoader.BooleanTYPE;
}
On 19 Jul 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Mark> Would it not be simpler to add a VMClassLoader class to libgcj
> Mark> that implements the getPrimitiveClass() method?
>
> I'd prefer not to, simply because the current implementation is more
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:
>
> > -public static final Class TYPE = VMClassLoader.getPrimitiveClass("boolean");
> > +public static final Class TYPE = boolean.class;
>
> With jikes, at least, thi
On 19 Jul 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:
> -public static final Class TYPE = VMClassLoader.getPrimitiveClass("boolean");
> +public static final Class TYPE = boolean.class;
With jikes, at least, this actually compiles to:
public static final Class TYPE = Boolean.TYPE;
which is probably not wha
On 18 Jul 2001, Brian Jones wrote:
> I'm interested in finding out if the majority of developers would like
> to see the AWT placed under the same license (GPL + exception) that
> other Classpath libraries are licensed with. If you think the AWT
> library should use the same license, reply with
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Eric Blake wrote:
> Someone will need to check my work with serialization issues, as I am not
> very familiar with the process. Basically, my added hashCode() caching will
> break if a deserialization restores the transient hashCode field to 0
> instead of -1. I chose -1 fo
On 13 Jul 2001, Brian Jones wrote:
> "C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On 12 Jul 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >
> > > They did this on purpose. I think they want maintainers to download
> > > it from the FSF each time in case
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, John Leuner wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:02:15PM -0400, Brian Jones wrote:
> > John Leuner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> > > 39. public abstract interface AlgorithmParameterSpec
> > ><-->
> >
> > You can probably remove the abstract keywo
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> But these are choices based on design principles. For instance, Boehm's
> collector wouldn't have been a good fit for SableVM with your portability
> constraints.
surprisingly, hans boehm's collector is quite portable --- i've ported it
a couple of times
On 12 Jul 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > "John" == John Keiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> John> 3. Slowness of Contribution: Argh. I was about to volunteer to
> John> write a page with the agreement. But *the FSF doesn't have it
> John> online anywhere*! Argh argh argh.
>
> They did th
On 12 Jul 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:
> You can do a mostly-precise GC. In fact the GC in libgcj is mostly
> precise. We only scan the stack conservatively. My understanding is
> that on current 64-bit architectures, a conservative scan is pretty
> unlikely to erroneously maintain much data. Howe
On 12 Jul 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:
> If someone were to implement some sort of JNI/CNI hybrid scheme, then
> I would argue for its adoption, at least if any performance penalty
> was on the JNI side and not the CNI side. Of course, I'm biased that
> way.
I can think of some appropriate strategie
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Aaron M. Renn wrote:
> depending on an already existing Java library installation. There are
> too many classes to simply pipe them all into the compiler on the
> command line.
really? I've got 172,301 lines of java source (in 877 files) which I
compile by doing *exactly t
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote:
> I really think that a separate "pure ANSI/ISO/POSIX C + JNI" (OK... only
> as pure as possible...) native tree should be maintained in Classpath.
> GCJ programmers could contribute to a separate CNI tree (under the
> condition that both trees are
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Tobias Downer wrote:
> I've separated the Collections API code from classpath and, with a few
> modifications, managed to compile the code on java 1.1. I've been
> looking for a 1.1 port because I've just recently set about the task of
> porting my GPL'd Java database server
> >>> Paul Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 13-Dec-00 3:44:22 PM >>>
>
> >Are there any plans afoot to include JAVAX jars
> >into CLASSPATH? JAXP and XML.jar would
> >seem likely contenders?
Note also that the Apache project has XML parsers in Java:
http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/
These are u
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Patrick Spingys wrote:
> Now I have heard about the "Internet C++"-project
> ( http://www.xmission.com/~icvm/ )
> On theire side stand, that this platformindependent code
> runs a lot of faster than the Java-code on the JVM.
The 'Internet C++' project is not truely open sour
On 15 Aug 2000, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I looked at this. Instead of checking in your fix, I elected to merge
> the libgcj and Classpath implementations of this class. I largely
> chose the libgcj implementation, as it is more efficient. In
> particular the Classpath implementation resizes the buf
I've just begun work on fitting Classpath together with the
FLEX j*va-to-native compiler infrastructure
(http://flex-compiler.lcs.mit.edu/Harpoon).
This is just a quick note to let the list know what I'm up to; I've gotten
only as far as autoconf/automake support for the new VM so far.
--s
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