Fwd: Status of gcj/java on PPC Linux?

Tue Feb 6 10:39:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin B Hendricks <khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca> writes:

Kevin> Please point me at the required pieces to grab via cvs and any
Kevin> test code and I would be happy to write that for you.
All you really need is the libffi in the gcc tree.
 cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@gcc.gnu.org:/cvs/gcc co gcc/libffi
However, I don't know if there are tests, or even documentation, for
the raw api code. I do know that you can tell that it works by trying
to run the libgcj Java bytecode interpreter.
This requires the full compiler and runtime, and it will also require
you to hack the configury a little bit so that the interpreter is
built.
Kevin> Under kaffe I tried libffi under ppc and could never get ti to
Kevin> work completely so I wrote their invoke native routine to
Kevin> replace the libffi interface. My guess it was just bitrot
Kevin> since Geoff Keating once had it working (and wrote the libffi
Kevin> for ppc) I think.
We know the rest of libffi works because reflection works on PPC.
All that's missing is the bits related to the interpreter.
Tom