Re: ARM EABI and eclipse-ecj

[Andrew Haley <aph-gcc at littlepinkcloud dot COM>]

Steven Newbury writes:
 > 
 > --- Andrew Haley <aph-gcc@littlepinkcloud.COM> wrote:
 > 
 > > Steven Newbury writes:
 > >  > Hi Andrew,
 > >  > I've built gcj for ARM EABI using all relevant patches AFAICT, simple test
 > > java
 > >  > programs are working fine both using gij and gcj.  I can't get eclipse-ecj
 > > to
 > >  > work though, it is giving me this output with -verbose :
 > 
 > I've found that if I use gcj as the jit:
 >         -Dgnu.gcj.jit.compiler=$(gcj-config --gcj) \ # <- Gentoo-ism
 >         -Dgnu.gcj.jit.cachedir=/var/tmp/jitcache/ \
 >         -Dgnu.gcj.jit.options="-Os"

 > Then it does work.  Something is wrong with the gij interpreter not
 > gcj itself.

OK, thanks.  That's really helpful.

 >  This is the first time I've had a javac other than jikes running on EABI. 
 > Actually this is the most functional jvm I've got working, jamvm had problems
 > with doubles which I couldn't get to the bottom of.  Cacao and kaffe don't to
 > want to work either in various ways.

I have found one or two more bugs in libffi and fixed them on the
branch.  It is possible that I forgot to post those patches.

 > > It's still work in progress.  Once all of the tests pass I'll have
 > > a look.
 > > 
 > > Did you try the branch at
 > > svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcj/gcj-eabi-branch
 > > ?

 > I will.  I wasn't aware of it.

Right, let's see how we get on with that.

Andrew.