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!
It looks like the iOS 7 SDK doesn't have GCC anymore, so we need to
use clang instead. Also, thread_act.h and thread_status.h have moved,
so I updated arm.h accordingly. That might break the build for older
SDKs, but I don't have one available at the moment. If it does break,
I'll fix it.
The intent of this target is to run our test suite against the installed jre.
This should help prevent our VM from diverging in implementation from the jdk.
The remainder of this commit fixes the problems that this exposes.
Earlier, if the annotations were already up-to-date (but
Annotations.class not), the compilation would fail.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This adds an extra class path element to the VM running the unit tests,
writes files with identical file names into both directories and then
verifies that SystemClassLoader#getResources can find them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This mainly involved reworking the makefile to avoid conflating
Darwin/ARM builds with iOS, since we may also want to build for the
iOS Simulator, which is i386.
Note that I was only able to test this on the Simulator, since I don't
have a real iOS device to test with. Sorry if I broke something; if
so, please fix it :)
There were two issues: the linux->darwin cross compiler is more stringent
about unused variables, and the makefile specified flags for building ON
darwin that were actually applicable whenever we are building FOR darwin.
Per https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian/issues/53, Avian should build
against a standard AOSP checkout, which means we should look for
subprojects in the directories the repo utility would place them.
Setting this property (e.g. -Davian.trace.port=5555) will cause the VM
to start an extra daemon thread which listens on the specified TCP
port for incoming connections and dumps stack traces for all running
threads to that socket. You can retrieve that dump using e.g. netcat:
nc localhost 5555
