Adding asm to JDK 8

[Jim Holmlund]

On 2/6/2012 12:04 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 4/02/2012 5:03 AM, Jim Holmlund wrote:
>> On 2/2/2012 7:13 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>>> I added build-dev to the cc as this is of general interest. Actually
>>> before doing this a heads-up should go out to all jdk8-dev I think.
>>>
>>> One question: are there any cross-compilation issues with building
>>> this? I'm assuming not but want to check.
>> I don't know of any such issues. What sort of build scenario are you
>> thinking of?
>
> When we cross-compile we have to distinguish between tools executed on the build host and those 
> built for the target host. If ASM is pure Java (is it?) then there should not be any such concerns 
> - as long as it doesn't build something in phase N that it has to execute in phase M>N.
>
Ok, thanks for the info.  asm is pure java and has no issues in this area.
- jjh

> David
> -----
>
>> - jjh
>>>
>>> Okay two questions :) : do you know when this will get modularized and
>>> show up in the jigsaw repositories?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>> On 3/02/2012 9:29 AM, Jim Holmlund wrote:
>>>> This is just a heads up that we are in the process of adding
>>>> http://asm.ow2.org/
>>>>
>>>> to jdk 8 as a new top level repo. This new repo contains the asm source
>>>> code, with a few mods that are needed to build/run it in our
>>>> environment. The new repo also contains the build files needed to
>>>> participate in our forest builds. The main building is done by the asm
>>>> build.xml, with a Makefile wrapper around that in order to participate
>>>> in the forest build. This Makefile dynamically renames the asm packages
>>>> by prepending 'org.openjdk'.
>>>>
>>>> The forest build handles the asm repo in the same was as the other
>>>> repos, eg, corba. The asm repo is built just after langtools, and then
>>>> the resulting .class files are known in the jdk build and are put into
>>>> rt.jar.
>>>>
>>>> The changes for this are:
>>>> - These files are modified/added:
>>>> M Makefile
>>>> M make/Defs-internal.gmk
>>>> M make/README.pre-components
>>>> A make/asm-rules.gmk
>>>> M make/jdk-rules.gmk
>>>> M make/sanity-rules.gmk
>>>> M make/scripts/hgforest.sh
>>>>
>>>> - the new asm repo is built just after langtools
>>>>
>>>> - these files in the jdk repo are modified/added:
>>>> M THIRD_PARTY_README
>>>> M make/Makefile
>>>> M make/common/Release.gmk
>>>> M make/common/internal/ImportComponents.gmk
>>>> M make/common/shared/Defs-control.gmk
>>>> M make/common/shared/Defs.gmk
>>>> M make/common/shared/Sanity-Settings.gmk
>>>> A make/common/internal/Defs-asm.gmk
>>>> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitCommons.java
>>>> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitOptimizer.java
>>>> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitTreeAnalysis.java
>>>> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitUtil.java
>>>> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitXml.java
>>>> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/RequiredAsmClasses.java
>>>>
>>>> These changes have not been reviewed and thus are subject to change.
>>>> Hopefully, this work can be finished in the next couple weeks. But where
>>>> have we heard that before.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if you have any questions or need more info.
>>>>
>>>> - jjh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>