Proposal: zero-assembler port of OpenJDK

Gary Benson gbenson at redhat.com
Tue Aug 5 01:07:35 PDT 2008


Greg Lewis wrote:
> 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+.

Zero is currently Linux-specific, so you'd have to port it to BSD.

Cheers,
Gary

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