[freenet-tech] Technology / Features

Thu Feb 28 16:56:00 GMT 2002

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com> writes:

Jeff> Well, since libunwind has this working (on ia64, at the moment)
Jeff> it would make sense to look at their API, with or without using
Jeff> any of their code. The intent of the author, David Mosberger,
Jeff> seems to be making this a drop-in replacement and perhaps offer
Jeff> it to gcc and/or glibc.
We're going to need something special eventually, because we need to
know the class corresponding to every stack frame -- including
interpreter and/or JIT frames.
I don't have a timeframe for this stuff, of course, but one of my big
goals is to eventually get libgcj used as the Java implementation in
Mozilla. This means we'll need AWT, plus all the security stuff we've
avoided for so long (stack overflow checking, SecurityManager and thus
stack trace support, plus a complete SecurityManager audit of the
libraries -- a lot of work).
Maybe we can get some interpreter/JIT support taken into consideration
by libunwind.
Tom