CACAO 0.95 released.
This is mainly a bugfix release. Here is a short list of the most
important changes:
* Dead-lock bugfix. This should fix the random dead-locks seen in
Eclipse or other applications.
* Search for suitable jar program during configure, can be specified
via JAR environment variable
* --enable-zlib bugfix
* i386 bugfix: Set FPU to 64-bit on VM startup (fixes Debian bug
#350729)
* PowerPC bugfix: (M_COPY): Handle longs and doubles properly.
* Fixed instructions copying stackslots (like DUP_X1).
* Fixed classcache-related problem with java.lang.reflect.Proxy.
* Throw correct exception when trying to load a directory
as a classfile (from a .zip file).
* Fixed incorrect method resolution when calling instance methods
through JNI (fixes CACAO bugs #17 and #18).
This release supports GNU Classpath 0.19+ and was tested on some
platforms against GNU Classpath 0.20.
This release fixes the long outstanding dead-lock bug mostly seen when
running Eclipse with CACAO. Please test this release with Eclipse and
report all crashes or dead-locks to
http://b2.complang.tuwien.ac.at/bugzilla/.
WARNING: Starting with this release we shut down our CVS repository.
Please switch to our new SVN repository:
svn://c1.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ahome/cacao/svn/cacao
More information can be found on http://www.cacaojvm.org/svn.html
CACAO uses GNU Classpath as Java core library and supports upstream
releases or CVS snapshots. The proper ./configure options for GNU
Classpath are:
--with-classpath-prefix=<dir>
--with-classpath-libdir=<dir>
Currently supported JIT compiler architectures are:
* alpha-unknown-freebsd5.4
* alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
* arm-unknown-linux-gnu
* i386-unknown-freebsd5.3
* i686-pc-linux-gnu
* mips-sgi-irix6.5
* mips-unknown-linux-gnu
* powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
* powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
* x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Additionally supported Interpreter architectures are:
* powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
Information about working applications and some screenshots can be
found on http://www.cacaojvm.org/
Daily test runs with CACAO SVN head, GNU Classpath CVS head and Mauve
CVS head can be found on http://www.cacaojvm.org/tgolem/
A StatCVS report for CACAO's CVS repository (generated on a free Java
stack) can be found on http://www.cacaojvm.org/statcvs/
CACAO 0.95 can be downloaded from
http://www.cacaojvm.org/download/cacao-0.95/
File : cacao-0.95.tar.gz
md5sum : 941b128c5524d9b6ab74b1a80d18d389
sha1sum: 2600852bd93c589780f1fea8e3204e63263645ee
Enjoy!
The CACAO Team
cacao@xxxxxxxxxxxx
