kill the sizers

[Robert Schuster]

Hi,
at FOSDEM 09 I had a talk with Twisti about the sizer binaries. I was
told that they are the only reason why a rt.jar for amd64 is different
from one for x86. Furthermore they will be the major road block in
getting cross-compilation support upstream.

Yes. Cross-compilation support right in OpenJDK, wouldn't that be cool?
In the discussion at FOSDEM that was regarded as likely and a desired
ability. (I was generally overwhelmed by the support from all parties
for the cross-compilation effort. :) )

Twisti contributed a simple and obvious idea on how to make this: All
the constants which the Java code needs should be provided by some
native code. The values could be retrieved using a large array and then
stored in 'static final' fields.

I am currently busy getting all the other patches for cross-compilation
in. If you are interested in cross-compiling OpenJDK and want to help
somehow, implementing the above proposal would be perfect. :)

If no one starts with this I will probably do it. However I won't have
time for this for some months and so it will all take much longer.

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Regards
Robert

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