CACAO 0.99 "Just one step left..." released.
This is a major feature enhancement and bug-fix release. Here is a
short list of the most important changes:
* Initial support to use OpenJDK as Java runtime library.
* Fixed memory leak in Boehm-GC.
* Boehm-GC updated to version 7.1.
* Removed libltdl dependency.
* Renamed --with-classpath configure options to
--with-java-runtime-library.
* Renamed --with-jre-layout to --enable-layout.
* Replaced --with-classpath-includedir with --with-jni_h and
--with-jni_md_h to better support OpenJDK/IcedTea builds.
* Use 8-byte stack-slots on all architectures.
* Faster C-to-Java calls.
* Removed genoffsets, cross-compilation is now much easier.
* Implemented Class.isAnonymousClass(), isLocalClass() and
isMemberClass() for GNU Classpath.
* Annotation support.
* Assertion support.
* Linenumber table code rewritten.
* Exception table code rewritten.
The major feature enhancement of this release is the OpenJDK support.
CACAO's libjvm.so can now be used as drop-in replacement for Sun's
HotSpot libjvm.so in OpenJDK. There is also support in IcedTea
available to use CACAO as JVM (--with-cacao option).
CACAO uses GNU Classpath as default Java runtime library and supports
upstream releases or CVS snapshots. This release requires GNU
Classpath 0.96 or higher to build and was tested against GNU Classpath
0.97.2 on a number of various platforms.
CACAO's ./configure has some options for Java runtime configuration,
namely:
--with-java-runtime-library=<type>
--with-java-runtime-library-prefix=<dir>
--with-java-runtime-library-classes=<path>
--with-java-runtime-library-libdir=<dir>
For detailed information, use ./configure --help.
Currently supported JIT compiler architectures are:
* alpha
* arm
* i386
* m68k (broken)
* mips
* powerpc
* powerpc64
* s390
* sparc64
* x86_64
Information about working applications and some screenshots can be
found on http://www.cacaovm.org/.
The CACAO wiki can be found here:
http://c1.complang.tuwien.ac.at/cacaowiki/
The CACAO mailing lists can be found here:
http://c1.complang.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/
Nightly test runs with CACAO Mercurial tip, GNU Classpath CVS head and
Mauve CVS head can be found on
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/cacaojvm/jvmtester/.
CACAO 0.99 can be downloaded from
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/cacaojvm/download/cacao-0.99/
File : cacao-0.99.tar.gz
md5sum : 7084fa846b39f9b33893a2179127c375
sha1sum: cc14f1517b19e2110aef87ca1de1e9a9c8d6ff90
File : cacao-0.99.tar.bz2
md5sum : cafe430ed0f57f6fc1216ac89f52141a
sha1sum: 04b2f7a2e68664cbfe30084e02e0310e05761a8e
Enjoy!
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