Re: GCJ 3.3 LEAKS Throwable & Derived Classes

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Andi Vajda writes:
 > 
 > On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > 
 > > Andi Vajda writes:
 > > >
 > > > The capability I'm most interested in is creating a shared library that is
 > > > statically linked with libgcj.a. So far, I've only been able to do this with
 > > > gcj 3.4.2 and gcj 3.4.4 on Windows.
 > >
 > > What do you mean, exactly?  Did you try in on some other OS and have
 > > it fail?
 > 
 > I mean creating a .so linked statically with libgcj.a. That way, I
 > link in only what I use from libgcj and create a much smaller
 > shared library. Yes, that prevents dynamic class loading but my app
 > doesn't do that.  I tried it on Linux and Mac OS X with gcj 3.4.3
 > and the process crashes instantly upon loading the resulting .so (a
 > python extension).  I haven't tried it yet with the latest gcc 4.1
 > snapshot, I should have more details once I do.

OK.  Well I don't know of anything that we have done that might cause
such a problem.  I can understand it failing to find some classes, but
not such a random crash.

Andrew.