Re: [kaffe] Embedded use (Zip libs, Qt etc.)

2002-12-17 Thread Jukka Santala
d to take a look at it couple of times, and altough no doubt a great VM, it hasn't so far provided what we need (Standards compliant and nearly complete AWT which can support Swing on very light GUI library, Xalan/Xerces operation etc. and all thi

[kaffe] Embedded use (Zip libs, Qt etc.)

2002-12-16 Thread Jukka Santala
estricted environment use taken more into consideration, or a statement to the effect that it isn't a design objective for Kaffe.org's version if that's the case. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] DataInputStream related merge

2002-10-24 Thread Jukka Santala
in the default lib? It seems implemnting at least some of the more trivial IO classes in native code could yield significant speed-ups for them. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] DataInputStream related merge

2002-10-22 Thread Jukka Santala
.println(sbis.read()); } catch (IOException ioe) { } } } /* Expected Output: foobar 120 */ -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] KeyEvent -> JDK 1.4 patch (And longer explanation;)

2002-10-22 Thread Jukka Santala
ion). But, well, if we get an usable XML-database based bytecode post-processing tool that is intuitive and easy to use, I won't complain, but neither do I volunteer to build one ;) As for text pre-processing, we could use Cpp, but I'd much rather have something that looks Java-like,

[kaffe] Patch: http proxy correction

2002-10-22 Thread Jukka Santala
more elegant way to do it, but couldn't come up with one, so here's the straightforward patch. Tue Oct 22 15:22:23 EEST 2002 Jukka Santala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * libraries/javalib/kaffe/net/www/protocol/http/ HttpURLConnection.java: Actually use the proxy socket. I

Re: [kaffe] KeyEvent -> JDK 1.4 patch (And longer explanation;)

2002-10-07 Thread Jukka Santala
trivial, but unfortunately this mod goes to Xalan/Xerces, and I'm almost certain they wouldn't approve of that patch in their releases. Which is why I'm asking for more frequent Kaffe releases. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] KeyEvent -> JDK 1.4 patch (And longer explanation;)

2002-10-05 Thread Jukka Santala
to get them to work - though I'm working part-time now, and just keeping the HEAD revisions working together is enough work not to have to worry about backwards compatibility ;) I'll ask around if it's something we want to do, though, but I'd suggest Kaffe try to live up to the "Release early, release often" model. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

[kaffe] DataInputStream related merge

2002-10-04 Thread Jukka Santala
ail. If anybody can come up with an implementation that doesn't need mark()/reset(), I'd be happy. If not, this corrects few exception issues and at least works, unlike the old code :) -Jukka Santala Index: libraries/javal

Re: [kaffe] kaffe (1.0.7 and CVS) problem with jython

2002-09-30 Thread Jukka Santala
#x27;s Kaffe Custom Edition didn't support BigInteger up until the end, as far as I know, so it may be referring to that version. In general that codebase-split has been source to great confusion, so best not to believe everything you read a

[kaffe] KeyEvent -> JDK 1.4 patch (And longer explanation;)

2002-09-30 Thread Jukka Santala
K_CUT actually work yet, this class just guarantess they're defined and Kaffe doesn't bowl over because of that. And I'll be unlikely to do that work, because this patch is enough to get our software work with Kaffe ;) (Actually, it's fairly lot more than just w

Re: [kaffe] DefaultSerialization

2002-09-19 Thread Jukka Santala
TP-site & HTTP gateway as well ;) Altough I think that doesn't get you the older stuff... -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

[kaffe] sanityCheck disabling...

2002-06-14 Thread Jukka Santala
ably ought to have it enabled, so maybe there's room to hook it into some configure script parameters yet. -Jukka Santala Index: kaffe/kaffevm/jit3/machine.c === RCS file: /cvs/kaffe/kaffe/kaffe/kaffevm/jit3/machine.c,v retr

Re: [kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream

2002-06-14 Thread Jukka Santala
are getting a low number of bug reports (< 10 per > week). They are great when you are getting a lot of I agree in general, that's alogn the lines that I suggested a rigid patch check-in policy isn't neccessary. But once 1.0.7 is out, _hopefully_ the developer (Or at least user/tes

Re: [kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream

2002-06-10 Thread Jukka Santala
27;d like to see 1) Bug tracking system for flagging bugs as required for next release, for future release, etc. 2) Intermediate beta/development releases, 3) Only critical showstopper fixes to Release Candidates. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] Placing kaffe on embedded devices

2002-06-07 Thread Jukka Santala
allocating just 5MB, and may well run (or cause something else to run) out of memory on <=64MB machines when GC could still recover some. So those are good options to be aware of for embedded use, too. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PRO

[kaffe] Enable --with-debug for ARM builds

2002-06-07 Thread Jukka Santala
, for this case and 1.0.7 release just getting the debug output working seemed like a more worthwhile goal to me. It seems like rather minor issue anyhow, but maybe this patch should go to the 1.0.7 branch and a merge towards PocketLinux/CE on the CVS head. -Jukka Santala Index: config/arm/jit-ar

Re: [kaffe] Placing kaffe on embedded devices

2002-06-07 Thread Jukka Santala
s - such as static builds if VM is the only real service on the device, and for non-reusable/reused code, and avoiding double-compression. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] Placing kaffe on embedded devices

2002-06-07 Thread Jukka Santala
e on your system). Optimizing system libraries is probably beyond the scope of a Kaffe embedded document, too, but it might still be worth mentioning that statically linking well optimized libraries built for the specific platform might be more useful. Ofcourse, most of those comments aren't in format

Re: [kaffe] Familiar iPAQ/ARM Linux success + comments

2002-06-05 Thread Jukka Santala
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Jukka Santala wrote: > export PATH=/skiff-2.96/local/bin:/skiff-2.96/local/arm-linux/bin:$PATH > ../kaffe/configure --with-x I should note I also tried out various parameters from the debug & profiling categories, as well as static linking, and none of those paramet

[kaffe] Familiar iPAQ/ARM Linux success + comments

2002-06-05 Thread Jukka Santala
made easier and more intuitive, and port jit3 for ARM over from PL, though. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] Benchmarking kaffe using XSLTMark

2002-05-31 Thread Jukka Santala
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Jukka Santala wrote: > I suggest yout ake a look at the jar-file index "spec" of Java, this > sounds a lot like that, so it'd be probably a good idea to look at Since I don't think it's actually specified anywhere in any kind of detail, I'

Re: [kaffe] Benchmarking kaffe using XSLTMark

2002-05-31 Thread Jukka Santala
but native compilation of some base packages is one thing we're looking at to offset the common embedded disadvantage in speed. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] MediaTracker

2002-05-31 Thread Jukka Santala
is left wondering why the different way of referring... are they really the same after all? So, I'd like to propose trying to accept some sort of style-guidelines for Kaffe code, for this and other similiar cases. Even if in the end they just ended up recommending that people try to use unif

Re: [kaffe] Benchmarking kaffe using XSLTMark

2002-05-31 Thread Jukka Santala
licate this brokedness because it affects how applications run. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] problem on arm/linux with todays CVS

2002-05-30 Thread Jukka Santala
was originally reported in this bug report that this problem is in "todays build", does this imply it has worked in some other recent build? -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] Optimization?

2002-05-29 Thread Jukka Santala
er if it even result sin overall improvement, what with all the cache- and garbage-collection overhead, and missed opportunities for optimization. On the other hand, if anybody wants to take a shot at it, why not ;) -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing lis

Re: [kaffe] The trouble with Klasses.jar

2002-05-29 Thread Jukka Santala
is hard enough to trace back bugs to jikes or Or maybe for release-use only; at least then you know any errors are likely to have been introduced by the optimizer ;) -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

RE: [kaffe] Help regarding kaffe-mozilla-oji plugin

2002-05-29 Thread Jukka Santala
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Byrne, Eugene wrote: > How do I unsubscribe? See the link at the end of every mail posted through the list. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] Optimization?

2002-05-29 Thread Jukka Santala
wledge of program internals and experience. Without knowing which code-paths are going to get heavy use, the VM couldn't (shouldn't?) decide on what paths to inline without just causing extra memory-use. Ofcourse, hopefully eventually Kaffe would anyway support selective JIT:ing to implement

[kaffe] MediaTracker

2002-05-28 Thread Jukka Santala
tter reason, imageUpdate() has also been modified to fire notify() in this case. We probably SHOULD also check ABORT in the same manner, but since I couldn't immediately come up with a test-case to compare this against other JRE's, I didn't add that in yet. -Jukka Santala Index:

Re: [kaffe] The trouble with Klasses.jar

2002-05-28 Thread Jukka Santala
primary Klasses.jar gets messed up due to adverse change, but I'd recommend against making them separately downloadable, as matching VM (JNI functions) and Klasses.jar versions would be a pain and probably even larger source of (frivolious) bug reports. -Jukka Santala ___

Re: [kaffe] Optimization?

2002-05-28 Thread Jukka Santala
d by it). I also looked at coffeine > Mark 3.0, that one works well with kaffe, but isn't > open source or free software. Did you find time to > take at look at a specific benchmarking toolkit? I checked aroudn a bit, and was tending towards Ashes, but didn't even try to egt th

Re: [kaffe] Optimization?

2002-05-27 Thread Jukka Santala
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Jukka Santala writes: > > How does this compare to a native method call? I've been under the > > impression that JNI calls carry significant overhead, so would not > > neccessarily be efficient for simple functions. On the oth

[kaffe] Optimization?

2002-05-26 Thread Jukka Santala
e functions. On the other hand we have to take into account that JNI code could be better optimized for the target platform, but there's probably still something that could be said about this performance. Other comments on this kind of refactoring? -Jukka Santala

Re: [kaffe] javac dosen't work for me

2002-05-26 Thread Jukka Santala
s, as it appears to now work, let's move on to more important things. (Should we have Bugzilla or equivalent for bug-tracking?) -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] xprofiling patch...

2002-05-24 Thread Jukka Santala
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Jukka Santala wrote: > Not sure if I forgot this from the original patch, but in any case this is > missing from the config.in file in Kaffe, preventing compile with > xprofile: Another catch: Klasses.jar needs rebuilding, at least the changes in HttpURLConne

[kaffe] xprofiling patch...

2002-05-24 Thread Jukka Santala
Naturally, autoconf needs to be ran to re-build the configure script, and the wrapped lines need to be put back together. This comes straight from JanosVM. Without it, Kaffe creates an empty config/xprofile-md.h file, which will prevent xprofile from compiling even with tha

Re: [kaffe] javac dosen't work for me

2002-05-24 Thread Jukka Santala
ou can run java or kaffe HelloWorld, then with "unset CLASSPATH". -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] javac dosen't work for me

2002-05-24 Thread Jukka Santala
withotu selling your soul, b) Run it on more platforms than any single other competing VM (afaik). -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] Sun classes

2002-05-21 Thread Jukka Santala
g implementations, because the API JavaDoc makes for a real poor spec in general. Luckily Kaffe has already done most of this, and the outcome with AWT programs is very close to that of 1.1. It even replicates the same incompatibilities to newer API ;) By

Re: [kaffe] Sun classes

2002-05-20 Thread Jukka Santala
ations out right now, and it'll certainly be a pain to add to whatever JDK you're using at any given time. (Unless we build all free JDK's capable to use something like Classpath and abandon all the work put into non-Classpath classlibs, until a Classpath v2 comes along

[kaffe] proxyHost...

2002-05-07 Thread Jukka Santala
to an empty string (or non-number). -Jukka Santala Index: libraries/javalib/kaffe/net/www/protocol/http/HttpURLConnection.java === RCS file: /cvs/kaffe/kaffe/libraries/javalib/kaffe/net/www/protocol/http/HttpURLConnection.j

[kaffe] libraries/clib/native/Field.c

2002-05-07 Thread Jukka Santala
e with. The expected results are from JDK 1.4, and I notice Kaffe doesn't do as detailed exception reporting, so either the expected outputs or exception reporting needs to be adjusted. Completely untested remain inheritance, interfaces and reflection access control. -Jukka Santala impor

Re: [kaffe] problem displaying GIF/JPEG on StrongArm

2002-05-07 Thread Jukka Santala
ew mods for debug / Xsmiles already, but that runs on framebuffer only. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

[kaffe] Poor CLASSPATH handling...

2002-05-06 Thread Jukka Santala
ugh I'm not too familiar with this part of the code, and there's no exceptions etc. available that early to track execution...) -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] Some obscure(?) problem...

2002-04-25 Thread Jukka Santala
up. I configured with --enable-static* to start off. The only thing that helps is linking with the profiling C-library directly, but that presents other problems. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] Some obscure(?) problem...

2002-04-25 Thread Jukka Santala
soon. It's probably related to the same problem preventing xdebugging as well. While on the topic, could you comment on why the xprof code has been changed to use gc_malloc with GC_ALLOC_FIXED alloc-strategy instead of KLMALLOC? Is that something that the common Kaffe

Re: [kaffe] Some obscure(?) problem...

2002-04-24 Thread Jukka Santala
the end of this week, so I'm having trouble deciding what to dedicate my resources on, but I'll try to look at the rest of the patch in case it has anything useful for debugging the code. -Jukka Santala ___ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe

Re: [kaffe] Some obscure(?) problem...

2002-04-24 Thread Jukka Santala
ableXProfiling': /home/jsantala/kaffe-build/kaffe/xprof/../../../kaffe/kaffe/xprof/xprofiler.c:243: undefined reference to `_gmonparam' /home/jsantala/kaffe-build/kaffe/xprof/../../../kaffe/kaffe/xprof/xprofiler.c:249: undefined reference to `_gmonparam&

[kaffe] Some obscure(?) problem...

2002-04-22 Thread Jukka Santala
(0.5) appears to exhibit same problem with the recent Kaffe desktop edition versions. I'll take a closer look if I have time, but as usual, if this rings a bell to anyone, particularily in regards to the latest modifications around this year, let me know. (Or fix it;) -Jukka Santala _