Mauve test suite (Was: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon)

2005-10-29 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Rodrigo, On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 15:40 -0700, Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: > For the rest I strongly suggest using Mauve, it can test a lot of the > classlib and would be nice to have only one FOSS testsuite for > classlibs. Completely agreed. Mauve is a collaboration of several companies and organisa

Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon

2005-10-18 Thread Rodrigo Kumpera
On 10/18/05, Zsejki Sorin Miklós <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: > > >On 10/18/05, Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: > >> > >> > >>>This won´t help to find the spots that require memory barriers, as > >>>these are only an issue on SMP sys

Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon

2005-10-18 Thread Zsejki Sorin Miklós
Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: On 10/18/05, Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: This won´t help to find the spots that require memory barriers, as these are only an issue on SMP systems. But your idea should not be discarded as it may help with other kinds of problem

Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon

2005-10-18 Thread Rodrigo Kumpera
On 10/18/05, Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: > > This won´t help to find the spots that require memory barriers, as > > these are only an issue on SMP systems. But your idea should not be > > discarded as it may help with other kinds of problems. > > Good point.. in

Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon

2005-10-18 Thread Archie Cobbs
Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: This won´t help to find the spots that require memory barriers, as these are only an issue on SMP systems. But your idea should not be discarded as it may help with other kinds of problems. Good point.. interesting question how you could check that too.. perhaps for multi

Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon

2005-10-18 Thread Rodrigo Kumpera
This won´t help to find the spots that require memory barriers, as these are only an issue on SMP systems. But your idea should not be discarded as it may help with other kinds of problems. On 10/17/05, Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM wrote: > > For testing

Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon

2005-10-17 Thread Archie Cobbs
Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM wrote: For testing threading, I think the simpler the better. If Harmony contains a JIT, then it would probably be easy to configure the JIT to insert "context switch" instruction(s) between every two instructions it emits. Then we could write tests that attempt to

Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon

2005-10-17 Thread Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM
05 5:40 PM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon Testing the java memory model, and hence threading, is really tricky and all I can think right now is some testing stuff Doug Lea released regarding to java.util.concurrent. What I know is that a test to be w

Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon

2005-10-17 Thread Rodrigo Kumpera
e- > From: Rodrigo Kumpera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Oct 17, 2005 3:26 PM > To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon > > These are really good news Dan! > > I think we could start writing test code for the runtime fun

Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon

2005-10-17 Thread Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM
tor.apache.org Subject: Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon These are really good news Dan! I think we could start writing test code for the runtime functionality like proper null checks, array bounds, class initialization, synchronization and such. On 10/17/05, Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM

Re: Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon

2005-10-17 Thread Rodrigo Kumpera
These are really good news Dan! I think we could start writing test code for the runtime functionality like proper null checks, array bounds, class initialization, synchronization and such. On 10/17/05, Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Everyone, > > I've been working h

Changes to bootjvm 0.0.0 coming soon

2005-10-17 Thread Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM
Everyone, I've been working hard on changes the bootjvm 0.0.0 code that I contributed recently. There have been a number of valuable critiques, especially involving portability issues. I have taken a hard look at these and found a number of things that need adjustment, plus some plain ol' bugs.