Re: performance problems

[Anthony Green <green@cygnus.com>]

Norman wrote:
> What did I do wrong? I went to the adventure of building gcj/libgcj
> mainly to get better performance for our MIPS simulator...

I just noticed recently that we don't compile the .java files with
optimization on by default.  That should change.

> - building libgcj on my Linux box was painful. I had to copy several
>   include files from the gcc source tree to places where libgcj looked
>   for them. (Perhaps due to my uncommon Linux installation: a Redhat 5.2
>   upgraded manually to kernel 2.2.x and glibc 2.1).

Could you provide details?  This shouldn't have to be done.
 
> - gcj/libgcj on Solaris 2.5.1 builds fine. The compiled apps, however,
>   crash with a SEGV during initialization, as reported by others.
>   Should I send in yet another stack trace?

No - that's ok.  I'm pretty sure the solution to everyone's problems
is to upgade to the latest binutils in cvs.  I have to check some old
mail first though.

AG

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Anthony Green                                               Cygnus Solutions
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