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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:39:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Geir Magnusson Jr (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Assigned: (HARMONY-7) Compliance of system calls with POSIX
 standards and native Windows standards
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Geir Magnusson Jr reassigned HARMONY-7:
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    Assignee:     (was: Geir Magnusson Jr)

> Compliance of system calls with POSIX standards and native Windows standards
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HARMONY-7
>                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-7
>             Project: Harmony
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: VM
>         Environment: All platforms, in particular Solaris 9, Windows XP, Windows (CygWin),
> and Mac OS-X at this time.
>            Reporter: Bootstrap JVM (Daniel Lydick)
>
> The original development was done on a Solaris 9 platform and
> there was a significant attempt to write all code in a way that would
> be easy to set up on any platform that could compile ANSI 'C'.  However,
> in the interest of getting the first cut out the door, certain shortcuts
> were taken just to get it working on the original platform.
> One of these was the use of the Solaris yield(2) system call as
> found in 'bootJVM/jvm/src/timeslice.c'.  Geir Magnusson has
> annotated this issue here and stubbed out yield(2) for the
> Windows platform so he could complete his initial compilation
> for CygWin.  Someone needs to check and see if yield(2) is a
> POSIX call.  If not, the POSIX equivalent should be substituted.
> (Notice that this source file has numerous library calls not found
> in your typical application program, including signal(3), setitimer(3),
> pthread_create(3) and the like).
> Since the GCC compiler for CygWin has a number of libraries
> which certainly include POSIX system calls, it might be worth
> the while to see if that reference could be applied to both the
> original Solaris implementation _and_ the CygWin compile
> that he did.  It might also then be a good idea to see if either
> this or a native Windows equivalent might be available for the
> native Windows compilation, and what native Windows library
> calls should be used for the other uncommon library functions
> found in this source file.  ('timeslice.c' is probably the most
> OS-dependent source file in the whole program.)
> Another item:  Someone should take Geir's CygWin compilation
> (done on Windows XP) and compile it in a native Windows
> environment to see if any more adjustments needed to get it to
> compile there as opposed to CygWin.  The main reasons are
> described in the preceding paragraph.  (Remember, though,
> that I am still working on some crucial parts of the runtime and
> not all virtual opcodes are implemented, although this will
> certainly change in the near future.)

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