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RE: Porting Boehm-gc to embedded m68k environment
- From: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- To: "'tromey at redhat dot com'" <tromey at redhat dot com>,"Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Cc: "'Andrew Haley'" <aph at redhat dot com>, John Neil <jneil at atrove dot com>,"'Jeff Sturm'" <jsturm at one-point dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:03:42 -0800
- Subject: RE: Porting Boehm-gc to embedded m68k environment
According to John, the bug is in gcj itself; the libgcj code is correct.
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org
> [mailto:java-owner@gcc.gnu.org]On Behalf Of
> Tom Tromey
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:27 AM
> To: Boehm, Hans
> Cc: 'Andrew Haley'; John Neil; 'Jeff Sturm'; java@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Porting Boehm-gc to embedded m68k environment
>
>
> >>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:
>
> Hans> 1) It uncovered a bug in the GC descriptor generation code. It
> Hans> should fall back to procedure descriptors if it sees any
> Hans> misaligned pointers.
>
> Does this bug occur in gcj itself, or just the descriptor generation
> code in libgcj? (I'd suspect the latter.)
>
> Anyway, we can fix this pretty easily.
>
> Tom
>