integrating the arm bytecode interpreter into IcedTea

[Andrew Haley]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> What does it take to integrate the arm bytecode interpreter written by Edward
> into IcedTea? I currently build it as a set of extra patches applied to the
> Ubuntu packaging, which works ok. 

Just make a patch.

We have to make sure that it doesn't break anything else.  I would like to
have it work with Shark too.

> Ed provided another fix to make it work on armv4 as well, so we don't need
> any explicit configuration option anymore (?).

> Afaik Xerxes did want to test a build on armv4; I don't have access to armv4
> only hardware.

I have a Thecus 2100, but that's AFAIK ARMv5TE.

Andrew.