The Misc test was failing when run as "make input=Misc run" since
test-flags did not include $(build)/extra-dir in the class library,
leading the ClassLoader.getResources test to fail.
Also, the UnknownHostException test was not reliable -- some ISPs
(mine included) return DNS matches for bogus hostnames, defaulting to
the IP address of a webserver intended to help users with name
resolution problems. That's dumb, I know, but I'm guessing I'm not
the only person with a dumb ISP, and it seems better to just remove
the test than make people think Avian is broken when it's really just
their DNS server that's broken.
These flags are only needed to ensure that libjvm.so can be used as a
drop-in replacement for OpenJDK's VM, and that only makes sense for
openjdk builds (without the openjdk-src option). It didn't hurt
anything to define them unconditionally, but it was misleading.
The -flto flag slows down linking dramatically without providing a
noticeable improvement in speed or size. Rather than take the
build-time hit every time we rebuild, let's only do it when it's
explicitly requested.
c2bfba9 introduced a regression such that building against a non-Avian
class library failed due to avian.Cell not being added to the library.
Since avian.Continuations depends on that class, the build broke.
I've been told by knowledgeable people that it is impossible to
implement composable continuations (AKA delimited continuations AKA
shift/reset) in terms of call-with-current-continuation. Since I
don't yet understand why that is, I figured it would help my
understanding to attempt it and see how it fails.
armv7 and later provide weaker cache coherency models than armv6 and
earlier, so we cannot just implement memory barriers as no-ops. This
patch uses the DMB instruction (or the equivalent OS-provided barrier
function) to implement barriers. This should fix concurrency issues
on newer chips such as the Apple A6 and A7.
If you still need to support ARMv6 devices, you should pass
"armv6=true" to make when building Avian. Ideally, the VM would
detect what kind of CPU it was executing on at runtime and direct the
JIT compiler accordingly, but I don't know how to do that on ARM.
Patches are welcome, though!
