X-Git-Url: http://wien.tomnetworks.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=137b44178a7537a14368a3e9d0991abf6705d597;hb=531b2e6a82408a0119f2bbc7d589254607ee1dac;hp=b76957360dc7814f9796523a377698612aef3e7d;hpb=f5089861607e9736102ca946bb934ea57bd0f27e;p=cacao.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b76957360..137b44178 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,14 +1,56 @@ -New in release 0.97 (xxx xx, 2006) +New in release 0.99 (August x, 2007) + + * Initial support to use OpenJDK as Java core library. + * Fixed memory leak in Boehm-GC. + * Use 8-byte stack-slots on all architectures. + * Faster C-to-Java calls. + * Removed genoffsets, cross-compilation is now much easier. + * Implemented Class.isAnonymousClass(), isLocalClass() and + isMemberClass() for GNU Classpath. + + +New in release 0.98 (June 6, 2007) + + * 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 rewritten, this saves JIT + code size from 20% up to 50%. + * Lock-record code was rewritten and a memory leak was fixed. + * Threads code has been reworked and improved. + * Exception code has been reworked and improved. + * Implemented Class/Method/Field getSignature. + * A lot of stuff has been reworked, fixed or improved in the whole + VM code. + * Fixed memory leak in threads code. + + +New in release 0.97 (October 30, 2006) * 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. * Added enable/disable system assertion support (-esa/-dsa). * Initial javax.management support. * Initial sun.misc.Unsafe (JSR166) support. * Added failed class as message to ClassCastException's. + * AttachCurrentThread, DetachCurrentThread, and + AttachCurrentThreadAsDaemon implemented. + * libjvm is now opened via dlopen (removed -rpath stuff). + * Data segment now reuses values (if possible). * Fixed AbstractMethodError bug. - * builtin_isanysubclass bugfix (BeanShell bug). + * Fixed builtin_isanysubclass (BeanShell bug). + * Fixed a memory leak in dump memory. + * Fixed a bug with DUP2_X1 and DUP2_X2. + * Safe decoding of invalid UTF-8 sequences in NewStringUTF. + * Fixed line numbers in exceptions thrown through the JIT. + * Proper null-check for MONITOREXIT. + * Many low-level jasmin tests added. New in release 0.96 (May 29, 2006)