Dynamic invocation patches on OS X

[Ben Evans]

Hi Greg,

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com> wrote:

> 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).


I've dug into it a bit more, and I'm pretty sure it's actually the same as
the general build problem around the size of intptr_t that was discussed a
little while ago. Is that the same as the issue you're currently working on
fixing?

Sorry for the slow response.


Not at all - thanks for getting back to me. Is there anything I can do to
help? My assembler's not that great but I'm happy to have a pop.

Ben
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