From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 3 23:31:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9CDD37B401 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A5F43FA3 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:31:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com) Received: from pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com ([81.98.110.96]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20030604063124.JQBC16933.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:31:24 +0100 From: Antony T Curtis To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:31:22 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306040731.23132.antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Native JDK with libthr/libkse X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 06:31:27 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 June 2003 3:49 pm, Tom Samplonius wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > ... > > > I was more interested in the statement that "jdk is only guaranteed > > to work with libc_r" that one of the Java developers posted. I > > took it to mean that the implementation of our jdk is geared > > towards libc_r (perhaps knowing internal stuff about how libc_r > > works). I don't want anything like that to stop us, and we > > can add some common APIs to the threads libraries if needed > > to support it. > > I don't think jdk uses any libc_r internals. I believe it is just that > jdk1.4.1 is a very large and very complex application, and the jdk > developers don't want to have to track libkse/libthr issues when jdk1.4.1 > is still beta and requires plenty more work. I know the Java developers > are trying to get jdk1.4.1 to the point it can pass Sun's TCK, so it can > be distributed as a binary. AFAIK, jdk1.3.1 still uses some libc_r internals unless the patch I sent to= =20 this list and Munehiro Matsuda did more work on is applied. =2D --=20 Antony T Curtis BSc Unix Analyst Programmer http://homepage.ntlworld.com/antony.t.curtis/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+3ZI7ql7dp2cddmIRAtwLAKDC+6BOuVmdNCD9TsxSldGEuJrz2QCgkDnA K0vmYwrAg1gOKbxIl1gzD14=3D =3DD143 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----