Monthly Archives: May 2008

Michael and I spent the day at Sun Labs in Menlo Park. Bernd and his group are currently porting Maxine to MacOS X amongst others, and ran into the horror that is Mac OS X’s/Darwin’s ptrace implementation. When the Maxine VM … Continue reading →

Our backend is currently using the Maxwell Assembler framework. Its a very neat system that generates an assembler and disassembler for a number of platforms (IA32 and AMD64/IA32E, SPARC, etc). Maxwell uses a generative approach and uses a built-in description … Continue reading →