FYI: JamVM + IcedTea 3 & OpenJDK 8 b80 is now self-hosting!

Andrew Hughes gnu.andrew at redhat.com
Tue Apr 30 07:25:33 PDT 2013


----- Original Message -----
> Robert Lougher have recently implemented JSR 292: Invoke Dynamic, JSR 308,
> JSR 335 & JSR 901 into JamVM.
> http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jamvm/log/
> 
> Today I updated IcedTea 3 to use Robert's latest JamVM revision and this
> enabled
> JamVM + IcedTea 3 & OpenJDK 8 b80 to be self-hosting; KUDOS!
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea/rev/c9942e43a65a
> 

I think the sa-jdi.jar issues represent an issue with the OpenJDK build
and shouldn't be worked around by creating fake files.

As mentioned before, please keep JamVM changes in sync with 1.x and 2.x.

> Cheers
> Xerxes
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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