VM Interface

Thu Sep 17 22:13:00 GMT 1998

Hello,
	You have mentioned that the runtime for egcs is based on the
	the Kaffe source.
	We would like to try out a short experiment by changing our 
	virtual machine (a custom, experimental one) to support your 
	format.
	I have downloaded egcs. I am trying to study the assembly code
	output by it. I notice that the requirements placed by the output
	code are not too much for an other VM to support. There seems to
	be some assumptions about the internal structure of the Class,
	method and field info - and may be some simple routines for 
	allocation, initialization, etc. We could probably change the dump
	routines to suit our meta data and provide interface to these
	routines.
	
	* Have I missed anything?
	* Is there something specific to Kaffe that is used by gcj? 
	* Is it possible for you to specify the curent interface specification
	to a JVM? (I understand that it may not be frozen - Nevertheless).
	Regards
	Geetha
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Geetha Manjunath
geetham@india.hp.com
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