1.13.0 Release Imminent - JamVM update to 2013-11-18 revision

[Xerxes Rånby]

2013-12-20 03:54, Andrew skrev:
>>> The changes proposed for 1.13.0 are now nearly all complete:
>>>
>>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1272
>>>
>>> so the plan is to make a release over the next few days, hopefully
>>> before the new year break.  Any later and we risk hitting the next round
>>> of security updates planned for mid-January [0]
>>>
>>> Please make any final changes ASAP.
>>>
>>> [0] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>
>> I would like to update JamVM for the icedtea 1.13 release to the 2013-11-18
>> revision, patch attached.
>> For icedtea 1.13 this update will bring in the following JamVM bug-fixes and
>> improvements:
>>
>> - JVM_NewMultiArray: element class may be an array
>>   http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jamvm/commit/?id=ec18fb9e49e62dce16c5094ef1527eed619463aa
>>
>> - jtreg test java/lang/reflect/Array/ExceedMaxDim
>>   http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jamvm/commit/?id=0c1e419fa29feee086e157a15eb24763ae92e52f
>>
>> - OpenJDK: Fix Local/Anonymous class checks
>>   http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jamvm/commit/?id=123e1cf425f01fd3a7d9ced3d4ff032850b98dc2
>>
>> - classlibMarkThreadTerminated should return Object*
>>   http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jamvm/commit/?id=e5eba542ddc649ef387a7ab580c6a9575b9510c5
>>
>> - Fix race-condition in constant-pool resolution code
>>   http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jamvm/commit/?id=56e3c750558281127202289e38cac0aadf874845
>>
>> - Race condition in setting up imethod table
>>   http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jamvm/commit/?id=9ec80dac5bf7551b1c95649d2f9b4b6edca59755
>>
>> - GC: Minor performance improvement
>>   http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jamvm/commit/?id=8f9f9b7b55f7d9b647cb8c733837d2c547851f70
>>
>> Test results:
>> https://gist.github.com/xranby/817621fa14862158d8a3 32bit X86 Ubuntu 12.04
>> No regressions observed for hotspot and langtools.
>> The JDK test still stops in the middle of the make check-jdk run although it
>> is now able to run more than 1000 tests
>> compared to previous record of ~200 before stopping which is a major
>> improvement.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Xerxes
>>
> 
> I think the new entries should go at the bottom of the JamVM NEWS section (as they were added last).
> I also don't see a need to repeat them all in the ChangeLog.
> 
> Fine with those changes.
> 

Thank you for the review Andrew, changed accordingly and pushed to icedtea6;
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/74aaf8c87752

I will update IcedTea 2 & 3 to match this update, the same JamVM revision work with all icedtea hg heads.

Happy holidays and cheers!
Xerxes