28.3 Limitation of the JVM back-end

The JVM back-end supports the entire Bigloo source language but the call/cc function. More precisely, using the JVM back-end, the continuation reified in a call/cc form can only be invoked in the dynamic extent of that form.

The other restrictions of the C back-end apply to the JVM back-end. Mainly,

• Bigloo is not able to compile all the tail recursive call without stack consumption (however, most of the tail recursive calls are optimized by Bigloo and don’t use stack activation frames).
• Bigloo compiled applications do not check for arithmetic overflow.
• When compiling to Jvm, the extern module clauses are not used.
• Jvm runtime system does support the following function chdir.
• Jvm runtime system support for chmod is restricted.
• In order to read a shell variable from a Bigloo compiled Jvm program, you have to use the Bigloo link option -jvm-env when linking that program. However, some shell variables are automatically defined (HOME, USER, CLASSPATH and TMPDIR.
• JVM code generation does not support pragma forms.

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