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Alex Buell wrote |
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> I thknk gcj could do the job just as well. It can compile to bytecode. |
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with ecj it is good enough for OpenOffice.org anyway |
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>> jamvm (or something like it) would make a very nice project. Sun java |
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>> would probably not (I think sun have it on their to-do list, but |
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>> considered long-term and difficult). |
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> I think it's enormously vital that Sun get off their butts and do |
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> something about it - porting the linuxintel version to linuxsparc |
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> should work. I've actually dug around in the jvm sources and they do |
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> have some assembly in various places. These would have to be rewritten |
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> for the sparc platform. |
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blackdown (jk) ported sun 1.5 for sparc and it would run fine, I built |
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and used it here, but there was some apparently random signal error that |
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has blocked it being released... |
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jim |
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