Kaffe bug on PC

[Aaron Coday]

Hi,

I have in the past worked on getting Kaffe running on win32/VC++, but
always run into a bunch of problems.  I think it would be very helpful
if when you get it working you could post some notes/diffs about
problems specific to win32/VC++.

thanks in advance.
-Aaron


Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> >I was able to build kaffe under VC++ 5.0. It does not
> >work yet but looks promissing. I have the following
> >problem:
> >
> >In initialization time while executing initialization
> >of system class the vm gets into nested calls to
> >itself situation. In file kaffe.def:
> >
> >define_insn(INVOKESTATIC)
> >{
> >......
> >
> >#if defined(TRANSLATOR) && defined(HAVE_TRAMPOLINE))
> >
> >call_indirect_const(&METHOD_NATIVECODE(method_method());
> >#else
> >   call(tmp);
> >#endif
> >
> >........
> >}
> >
> >In my configuration the call(tmp) is what compiled
> >and, if you look at this macro it is, basicly, calling
> >virtualMachine() which again gets back to INVOKESTATIC
> >case and like that - forever until the program runs
> >out of stack.
> >
> >Any clue????
> 
>    Not really, did you try to compile the interpreter or the JIT.
> BTW I'm very interested in a version of Kaffe in the VC++ environment.
> Did you had to patch a lot of things ?
> 
> Daniel

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