[kaffe] Re: Kaffe Documentation / JIT for VLIW

[Gerlando Falauto]

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Svante Arvedal wrote:

Hi Svante,

thanks for your reply. I would really love to hear something more about 
your project. Could you give me some pointers and/or send me some of your 
papers? And yes, the source code could would sure be very helpful to me.
Right now I am going very slowly about this, any sort of external input 
would certainly help me a lot.
The processor I am trying to port to is LX, a processor mostly for 
embedded devices, designed by HP and ST.

Thanks again,
Gerlando

 > Hi Gerlando,
> I have recently ported the Kaffe jit3 engine to the VLIW architecture IA-64 as a master's thesis; so yes it is possible, even though I wasn't able to completely finish it. The jit framework was not constructed for VLIW architectures so I've done some workaround solutions. If Kaffe is to be ported to a number of VLIW architectures someone should make the jit compiler framework more general to faciliate this.
> I've not yet made my code available but that's only a matter of time. I guess it will help you a great deal.
> What processor are you porting to?
> 
> Best regards
> Svante
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