[armedbear-devel] Several ABCL/Java questions

[Didier Verna]

  Hello,

I'm trying to port Clon[1] to ABCL, or at least figure out whether it
makes sense at all. My Java programming experience boils down to a Hello
World program 10 years ago or so, so some questions belong to the Java
side of ABCL for sure :-). I would be grateful if somebody can help me
answer these.

1/ Is it possible to create standalone ABCL executables and how ?

2/ ABCL doesn't seem to provide a [set|put]env function. From what I can
   gather from the internet, that would be because there's no such thing
   in Java. I've seen some nasty tricks around consisting in modifying
   the (application-local) initial memory mapping of the environment,
   but that's all. Is this correct ?

3/ It seems that ABCL does not have a complete MOP. In particular, I
   couldn't find a validate-superclass function. Is this correct ? Does
   this mean that classes/superclasses are implicitely "validated" ?

4/ There is a place where I need to access low-level information about a
   stream in order to figure out whether it's connected to a tty, and in
   that case, what's the tty line-width. In other implementations, I
   have native support (or cffi support in the case of CLISP) for
   calling ioctl with the TIOCGWINSZ argument. It either gets me the tty
   line width or throws me an ENOTTY error in the face which is fine.
  
   How can I do something similar in ABCL ?


Thank you very much !


Footnotes: 
[1]  http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/software/lisp/clon.php

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