Re: Fwd: @RISK: Sun Java Floating-Point Value Denial of Service

Dan Bornstein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:54 AM, James Graves <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since you should be able to convert any .jar to .dex using their
> conversion tool, it should be relatively easy to try out E-on-Java
> with Dalvik.  You just need a VM compiled for x86, which has been
> done, though I don't have a link for that this instant.

As of Gingerbread, a normal build of Android on a Linux host includes
a host-targeted version of dalvikvm. Though it's not an officially
supported deployment configuration, we run regression tests on it
regularly (for an x86 host).

I am personally interested in hearing any experiences (positive or
negative) of people running E on Dalvik, either on Android or on a big
computer.

Also, FWIW, the floating point parsing code that Dalvik includes is
derived from Apache Harmony. AIUI, the Harmony floating point parsing
code had a bug similar to the one that's now being widely re-reported
against the JDK, but it was fixed several years ago already.

Cheers,

-dan
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