Previously, I used a shell script to extract modification date ranges
from the Git history, but that was complicated and unreliable, so now
every file just gets the same year range in its copyright header. If
someone needs to know when a specific file was modified and by whom,
they can look at the Git history themselves; no need to include it
redundantly in the header.
We were not properly converting dots to slashes internally for package names
and we did not properly handle Method.getAnnotations and
Method.getAnnotation(Class<T>) on methods without any annotations.
Added some tests to cover these cases.
This test covers the case where a local stack slot is first used to
store an object reference and later to store a subroutine return
address. Unfortunately, this confuses the VM's stack mapping code;
I'll be working on a fix for that next.
The new test requires generating bytecode from scratch, since there's
no reliable way to get javac to generate the code we want. Since we
already had primitive bytecode construction code in Proxy.java, I
factored it out so we can reuse it in Subroutine.java.
Rather than try to support mixing Avian's core classes with those of
an external class library -- which necessitates adding a lot of stub
methods which throw UnsupportedOperationExceptions, among other
comprimises -- we're looking to support such external class libraries
in their unmodified forms. The latter strategy has already proven
successful with OpenJDK's class library. Thus, this commit removes
the stub methods, etc., which not only cleans up the code but avoids
misleading application developers as to what classes and methods
Avian's built-in class library supports.
The biggest change in this commit is to split the system classloader
into two: one for boot classes (e.g. java.lang.*) and another for
application classes. This is necessary to make OpenJDK's security
checks happy.
The rest of the changes include bugfixes and additional JVM method
implementations in classpath-openjdk.cpp.
Whereas the GNU Classpath port used the strategy of patching Classpath
with core classes from Avian so as to minimize changes to the VM, this
port uses the opposite strategy: abstract and isolate
classpath-specific features in the VM similar to how we abstract away
platform-specific features in system.h. This allows us to use an
unmodified copy of OpenJDK's class library, including its core classes
and augmented by a few VM-specific classes in the "avian" package.
In order to facilitate making the VM compatible with multiple class
libraries, it's useful to separate the VM-specific representation of
these classes from the library implementations. This commit
introduces VMClass, VMField, and VMMethod for that purpose.
This simplifies the JNI implementation for looking up methods. It also
fixes a bug where an applications calls GetStaticMethodID with class A
and then calls CallStatic<Type>Method with class B which extends A. The
old code would look in the wrong method table and thus call the wrong
method.
