Status before pulling request #17 opened on Feb 28 by eahumada

eahumada added a lot of interesting features, including GC. This is a marker in case I need to undo the pull request.

Rel. 0.2.3

Added FuckBench platform (https://github.com/mzattera/FuckBench).

Rel. 0.2.2

Unfortunately, due to #8, sub-classing is broken. Still, releasing this as a proof-of-concept as it used by the FuckBench project.

• Refactored code to have a nicer split between different platforms and make porting easier.
• Made Java heap allocation nicer by supporting segmented heap again.
• Removed unnecessary type conversion check code (mydebug.h).
• Fixed constant String allocation, to align with proper Java behavior and avoid OutOfMemoyException (see #3).
• Code now uses standard definitions for boolean, integer and NULL.
• java.io greatly improved adding more support for standard library. Added I/O to console, including Console class.

Rel. 0.2.1

• Tested an fixed use of CASSPATH in batch files.
• Tested and fixed Java - PETSCII character conversion.
• Slightly improved print() code.
• Fixed ANT scripts to use JDK 15 and produce 1.8 code.
• Updated versions of cc65 and WinVICE being distributed.

Rel. 0.2.0

• Greatly extended class library by using classes from leJOS NXJ (replacing those from RCX).

• Fixed conversion from Java String to char[] into the JVM code.

• ANT builds using Java 1.8; suppressed related compiler warnings.

• jtools now outputs directly C code instead of Java binary.

• "Magic number" and version automatically synchronized between jtools and b2fJ JVM.

• Removed unused classes from jtools.

Proof of Concept

This is the first release of b2fJ; it works enough for me to create a (naive) sprite demo on the C64.