The various Architecture::nextFrame implementations were not walking
the stack correctly when a StackOverflowError was thrown. The
throwStackOverflow thunk is called before the frame of the most
recently called method has been fully created, and because tails=true
builds use a different calling convention, we need to treat this
situation carefully when building a stack trace or unwinding.
Otherwise, we will skip past all the java frames to the next native
frame, which is what was happening.
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!
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.
scalac may emit a ldc followed by an i2c, whereas javac does the
conversion (including zero extension if necessary) at compile time.
This commit ensures we handle the i2c case properly.
scalac may generate a ldc followed by an l2i, whereas javac always
seems to condense this into a single ldc_w. The former exposed a bug
in the JIT compiler which we never hit with javac-generated bytecode.
This is necessary to avoid name conflicts on various platforms. For
example, iOS has its own util.h, and Windows has a process.h. By
including our version as e.g. "avian/util.h", we avoid confusion with
the system version.
