735414 - Compile intrinsics.abs into avmshell instead of loading separately.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tamarin Graveyard :: Virtual Machine, defect)

Description

[Edwin Smith]

Attachment: The failed attempt.

We now have intrinsics.abs in the test suite, containing a lot of wrappers for no-operand opcodes.  Before it landed, I attempted to have these functions compiled into avmshell, in the shell module.

The attempt failed miserably:

1. we have no easily-automatable tool for merging abcs, so i need to hack WAY too much C++ code, to add a second abc to the shell (separate from shell_toplevel.abc)

2. this in turn required several new .cpp files because of symbol conflicts caused by #including two generated .h or .cpp native thunk files in the same source file.

3. furthermore, nativegen.py and startup code in the vm break when there are 0 classes in an ABC.  bleh, I gave up.  Several corner cases will have to be fixed to make it work.

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Tamarin isn't maintained anymore. WONTFIX remaining bugs.