SYS:RUN-PROGRAM does not work on pre-Java7 JVMs (was Re: abcl-1.4.0 released)

[Blake McBride]

I agree.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don't care for 1.6 compatibility.
>
> Personally I'd like to see the compiler generate more modern bytecode
> (which is loaded more quickly btw because the verification phase is
> lighter) and I wouldn't mind if it used ASM or other established bytecode
> generation libraries rather than mucking with bytes by itself.
>
> On 20 November 2016 at 10:28, Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 2016/11/19 12:50, Douglas Miles wrote:
>> > ​A quick note
>> > I
>> > ​ have some projects in which I use ABCL on that still need java1.6  I
>> was
>> > unable
>> > ​
>> >
>> > ​to use the new code as well
>>
>> A [provisional patch][1] that restores compilation in JDK6 is now
>> available.
>>
>> [1]: http://abcl.org/trac/attachment/ticket/422/run-program-
>> 20161120a.diff
>>
>> --
>> "A screaming comes across the sky.  It has happened before, but there
>> is nothing to compare to it now."
>>
>>
>
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