Re: VM-Writers: Order of class initialization

[shudo]

Hi,

There were several postings about bootstrapping of a JVM:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2001-07/msg00203.html
  Subject: Re: String/Hashtable boostrapping (again)
  Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:08:38 -0400

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2002-05/msg00074.html
  Subject: Re: initialization
  Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 09:29:27 +0200

I have not been a JVM developer, but a JIT developer, and have not
implemented a bootstrapping sequence.


From: "Peter Werno" <address@hidden>

> I am slowly getting the impression that I'm doing something wrong here. I
> have the VM create a new object of class "VMThread" (and subsequently
> Thread) which also leads to the initialisation of the Thread class. This
> initialization will subsequently start various other class initializers.

> Maybe I need to initialize the classes in a certain order? If so, do you
> have any information about this requirement? How about the Thread
> initialization? Am I doing this correctly (i.e. first VMThread then
> Thread?)


  Kazuyuki Shudo        address@hidden  http://www.shudo.net/