Re: do we need sun.misc.VM?

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From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Sun Nov 15 1998 - 22:10:28 EST

On Nov 15, 1998, Godmar Back <gback@marker.cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> Failed to locate native function:
> sun/misc/VM.getState()I
> java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError
> at sunw/hotjava/misc/ResourceManager.internalCreate(88)
> at sunw/hotjava/misc/ResourceManager.getManager(80)
> at sunw/hotjava/misc/ResourceManager.create(72)
> at sunw/hotjava/Main.main(144)

> So, hotjava is calling into sun.misc?
> As that's supposed to work with every 1.1.x complaint JVM?

Have you considered that ResourceManager might be doing this only
because `Class.forName("sun.misc.VM")' did not throw (assuming you
have classes.zip in your classpath)? I haven't checked, but it's
quite a reasonable assumption.

> So, shall we implement the native methods of sun/misc/VM.getState()I in
> some kind of compatibility library?

Or just provide a script that will create a sun-classes.zip without
the sun.misc subtree... 

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Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

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