Proposal: zero-assembler port of OpenJDK

[Greg Lewis]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:19:54PM -0700, Rob Ross wrote:
> I'm late to this discussion, and I'm not a member of any groups so my  
> comments don't carry the same weight. But I just wanted to chime in  
> and say I think this is a brilliant idea, and it will allow for a  
> personal goal of mine to be achieved far easier than otherwise, that  
> of being able to port OpenJDK to the Mac OS X platform running on PPC  
> hardware.

If both the zero-assembler and the BSD changes get merged into OpenJDK
then you shouldn't have to even do anything (notionally at least :) for
Mac OS X 10.4+.

> On Aug 1, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> 
> > Dalibor Topic wrote:
> >> Thank you for the fine proposal, Gary, I'm a big fan of your work,  
> >> and would like
> >> to encourage list members to discuss it - once the discussion  
> >> peters out agreeably,
> >> I'd be happy to do the formal project proposal, and initiate a  
> >> vote among members.
> > I think the discussion of this proposal has now closed favorably,  
> > so I'll be doing a
> > formal project proposal, and calling the group to vote shortly.
> >
> > cheers,
> > dalibor topic
> >
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