Dynamic invocation patches on OS X

[Greg Lewis]

G'day Ben,

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 12:43:47PM +0000, Ben Evans wrote:
> There has been interest over on the mlvm-dev mailing list (for development
> of a Java VM which had explicit Multi-Language support - including languages
> with dynamic dispatch) in getting the dynamic invocation patches for OpenJDK
> 7 running on OS X.
> 
> Currently, the application of the patchset produced by John Rose (detailed
> at http://wikis.sun.com/display/mlvm/Building) is failing on the bsd-port
> code. Is there anyone on this list who could possibly spare some cycles to
> help us understand where the patch failures are coming from - and even help
> fix?
> 
> I'm quite a newbie at a lot of OpenJDK - but I do have time to devote to
> trying to fix this. Other people who would directly benefit from having a
> working patchset include some of the core developers for JRuby - so this
> would really help out some other projects as well.

What errors are you seeing?  Currently there are general build errors on
Mac OS X.  I have some local changes that I've been using to try and get
around them, but I'm getting stuck on the compiler not liking some of the
assembler (which hasn't actually changed recently, so I'm not sure what
the issue is with it).

Sorry for the slow response.

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