Re: [patch 3.4/3.5] libffi & libjava port for hppa-linux

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Ranjit Mathew writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > John David Anglin writes:
 > >  > > That said, if a libjava maintainer could pinpoint the likely causes of the 
 > >  > > failures, I'd glad to take a look.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Same here.  Randolph Chung and I both tried to debug the java exception
 > >  > failures but we weren't able to determine the cause.
 > > 
 > > MD_FALLBACK_FRAME_STATE_FOR has not yet been written, as far as I can
 > > see.  This is part of finishing the gcj port.
 > 
 > If my understanding is correct, a much slower interim
 > option would be to use "-fcheck-references" and
 > "-fuse-divide-subroutine" for your target instead, while
 > waiting for the correct MD_FALLBACK_FRAME_STATE_FOR
 > implementation for your target - but the latter is
 > *much more preferable*.

It's an interim option, but it's not really a solution.  The change to
using "smart pointers" for CNI references will solve this for good.
(I hope...)

Andrew.