As described in readme.txt, a standalone OpenJDK build embeds all
libraries, classes, and other files needed at runtime in the resulting
binary, eliminating dependencies on external resources.
Consider the following makefile construct:
target: dep0
target: dep1 dep2
command -o $(@) $(^)
With some versions of make, $(^) will expand to "dep1 dep2", but on
others it will expand to "dep0 dep1 dep2". The commit ensures that we
no longer rely on the former behavior (nor the latter, for that matter).
Due to a silly cut-and-paste error, we were incorrectly passing the
stdout and stderr file descriptors back from native code to Java,
which prevented reading the output of the child process.
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.
We now consult the JAVA_HOME environment variable to determine where
to find the system library JARs and SOs. Ultimately, we'll want to
support self-contained build, but this allows Avian to behave like a
conventional libjvm.so.
Previously, we only built platform specific code in an
options-specific directory (e.g. build/linux-x86_64-debug), but built
the Java classes in the shared, top-level build directory. This
minimized duplication when building with different sets of options,
but now that we're supporting the option of selecting a third-party
class library, we need to put the classes in the options-specific
directory as well.
The main changes in this commit ensure that we don't hold the global
class lock when doing class resolution using application-defined
classloaders. Such classloaders may do their own locking (in fact,
it's almost certain), making deadlock likely when mixed with VM-level
locking in various orders.
Other changes include a fix to avoid overflow when waiting for
extremely long intervals and a GC root stack mapping bug.
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.
