Subject: Re: Java?
To: Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>
From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/25/2004 14:50:29
Dalibor Topic wrote:

> there is apparently a package of 1.0.5 for netbsd-m68k, but that's 
> kaffe from a few years ago :(


I might give it a try anyway, just to see if it will do what I want to do.

> We're currently busy hunting down all sorts of compiler warnings in 
> order to make sure that the kaffe core becomes more stable accross 
> platforms. Help on that would be quite appreciated, and doesn't 
> require one to be a Java hacker :)


So what exactly would you need volunteers to be doing here?

> The current problem with m68k-* is, afaik, that the 
> kaffe/kaffevm/verify.c assembler file ends up being too large for the 
> assembler, so  you get interesting warnings from the assembler [1] and 
> crashes later.
>
> So a first step could be to refactor verify.c into smaller bits. I 
> don't know if m68k has some object size limit, of if gcc can be 
> persuaded to generate code that doesn't cause assembler warnings. Any 
> input from m68k-netbsd experts is heartily welcome.


Thanks,
Tim

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