Maintenance of an aging Bugzilla instance is a burden, and since CACAO development has mostly migrated to Bitbucket, the bug tracker will be maintained there as well.

The new location for tracking bugs is Bitbucket issues.

All the historical content from Bugzilla is statically archived at this site on the …

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Since earlier today the CACAO Doxygen Manual is online: http://c1.complang.tuwien.ac.at:8010/doxygen/

The manual is intended for CACAO developers and everyone who is interested in CACAO internals. Most comments are not yet Doxygen ready but things are improving with every commit. In the end publishing …

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I like it when visitors can leave comments, and Disqus is extremely easy to use with Pelican. It literally takes a single setting to switch on.

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This is a snapshot release.

• Support for OpenJDK 7.
• ARM: Support for hard-float systems (PR172).
• Fixed remaining icedtea6 check-langtools failures (PR166, PR167).
• Reworked internal string representation.
• Completed migration to C++ for almost all remaining files.
• alpha: Regression tests work again.
• Introduced a new logging framework in more idiomatic C++.
• PR178 …

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Because of its maintainer-unfriendly and consequent static nature, the old homepage had to be retired. I'd like to try something new with the static site generator Pelican.

The main advantage of this setup is that a feed can be provided now. I also hope to provide slightly more updates here …

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This is the first release in quite some time, so the following list of the most important changes is necessarily incomplete:

• Large parts rewritten in C++.
• No more cacaoh, simplifying cross-compilation.
• --enable-handles switch for making native code ready for moving GC (currently broken).
• park/unpark support.
• Simplified signal handling — reduced …

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This is a bug-fix release. Here is a short list of the most important changes:

• New subtype checking code fixes unexpected class cast exceptions and no longer needs critical sections in JIT code.
• Fixed race condition in patcher subsystem which caused illegal instructions and segmentation faults (PR85).
• Fixed PR112, PR116 …

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This is a bug-fix release. Here is a short list of the most important changes:

• Fixed PR93 (Process.destroy() now works correctly).
• Yield threads when sleeping time is zero.
• Implemented sun.misc.Unsafe.putFloat(JF)V

CACAO uses GNU Classpath as default Java runtime library and supports upstream releases or …

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This is a bug-fix release. Here is a short list of the most important changes:

• Rewrite of atomic instructions code. This fixes problems with AWT/Swing programs with OpenJDK.
• Fixed PR83, PR89.

CACAO uses GNU Classpath as default Java runtime library and supports upstream releases or CVS snapshots. This release …

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This is a bug-fix release. Here is a short list of the most important changes:

• Fixed compilation of OpenJDK code (libltdl related).
• Imported new gnu/java/lang/CPStringBuilder.java to fix OOMEs.
• Fixed abort with OpenJDK's java binary when exiting.

CACAO uses GNU Classpath as default Java runtime library and …

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This is a major feature enhancement and bug-fix release. Here is a short list of the most important changes:

• Initial support to use OpenJDK as Java runtime library.
• Fixed memory leak in Boehm-GC.
• Boehm-GC updated to version 7.1.
• Removed libltdl dependency.
• Renamed --with-classpath configure options to --with-java-runtime-library.
• Renamed --with-jre-layout …

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This is a major feature enhancement and bug-fix release. Here is a short list of the most important changes:

• ARM and MIPS32 code generators are now open-source.
• PowerPC64 code generator was added.
• Sun's phoneme CLDC-1.1 classes can now be used as Java core library.
• Exception throwing code was completely …

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This is a bug-fix and feature enhancement release. Here is a short list of the most important changes:

• New instruction format.
• New intermediate representation with unified variables.
• Local subroutine elimination.
• Fixed the interpreter - it runs eclipse now.
• New stack-based verifier (used for -Xint).
• Boehm GC updated to version 6.8 …

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This is a bug-fix and feature enhancement release. Here is a short list of the most important changes:

• New tasuki lock implementation resolves deadlock problems on multi-processor machines.
• Handle Miranda-methods properly.
• try-catch line number problem with jikes fixed.
• Added support for libjvm.so (including invocation API).
• Stripped down object code …

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