I would think you will find the alien plugin source is under
"Copyright 2008 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Licensed under the Apache
License, Version 2.0 (the ''License''); you may not use this file
except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the
License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Aug 27th, 2009 "
But as far as I can see the only author is Eliot, with changes by me
to fix a few things and expand a bit on the PowerPC support.
Further to this
The class comment says:
"This plugin implements the Newsqueak foreign-function interface, a
small elaboration on the Strongtalk FFI.
Call-outs are performed by a small number of primitives, one each for
the four different kinds of return linkage on x86. The primitives are
var-args. Each primitive has a signature something like:"
Also some of the C & h files are
* Some of this code is
* Copyright 2008 Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the ''License'');
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 *
with perhaps
* Some of this code is
// Created by John M McIntosh on 12/2/08.
Copyright (c) 2008 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. All rights
reserved.
MIT License
or if I had made the file without using Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
files.
Copyright (c) 2008 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. All rights
reserved.
MIT License
On 2009-09-29, at 6:27 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:39:32AM +0200, Torsten Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> Any news on this?
>
> John,
>
> Can you offer any guidance on this?
>
> I have not looked at this in any detail, but it look like the
> Alien-VMMaker-Support package could potentially be merged into VMMaker
> (assuming MIT license for those changes), and the remainder of the
> Alien on SqueakSource should be maintained as a separate package,
> as is already the case.
>
> I have not tried building the Alien support, but I appears that for
> 32-bit Intel platforms it would be a matter of building the plugin
> from sources in Alien-VMMaker-Plugins. The remainder would be image
> changes to be loaded from the remaining packages in Alien from your
> SqueakSource project.
>
> Is that correct?
>
> Dave
>
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