CACAO 0.97 released.

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.
  * 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.
  * 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.

This release supports GNU Classpath 0.92+ and was tested on some
platforms against GNU Classpath 0.92.

CACAO uses GNU Classpath as Java core library and supports upstream
releases or CVS snapshots of the normal GNU Classpath tree or the
generics branch.  CACAO's ./configure has some options for GNU
Classpath, namely:

  --with-classpath-prefix=<dir>
  --with-classpath-libdir=<dir>
  --with-classpath-includedir=<dir>

This release adds support for i386-apple-darwin architectures.

Currently supported JIT compiler architectures are:

  * alpha-unknown-freebsd5.4
  * alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
  * arm-unknown-linux-gnu
  * i386-apple-darwin8.8.1
  * i386-unknown-freebsd5.3
  * i686-pc-linux-gnu
  * mips-sgi-irix6.5
  * mips-unknown-linux-gnu
  * powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
  * powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
  * x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Additionally supported interpreter architectures are:

  * powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu

Information about working applications and some screenshots can be
found on http://www.cacaojvm.org/

The CACAO wiki can be found here:
http://c1.complang.tuwien.ac.at/cacaowiki/

The CACAO mailing list can be found here:
http://c1.complang.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/cacao/

Daily test runs with CACAO SVN head, GNU Classpath CVS head and Mauve
CVS head can be found on http://www.cacaojvm.org/tgolem/

CACAO 0.97 can be downloaded from
http://www.cacaojvm.org/download/cacao-0.97/

File   : cacao-0.97.tar.gz
md5sum : 36a6a3cfb2914d483bd28f276b8dd93d
sha1sum: 1db66e6912a0b222a01eba74e5c6ed364acc4393

Enjoy!

The CACAO Team
cacao@cacaojvm.org