Re: [ARM] Issues running vm on Debian ARM port

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Andrew Haley writes:
 > Alex Karasulu writes:
 >  > Hi all,
 >  > 
 >  > No matter what I try to run I get the following error from the vm:
 >  > 
 >  > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
 >  >    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(java.lang.String, 
 >  > byte[], int, int, java.security.CodeSource) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
 >  >    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(java.lang.String) 
 >  > (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
 >  >    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String, boolean) 
 >  > (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
 >  >    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String) 
 >  > (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
 >  >    at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
 >  > 
 >  > The OS is Debian etch for armeb.  The machine type is an armv5tel.  I'm 
 >  > running the following in terms of gcc:
 >  > 
 >  > minit3:~# gcc --version
 >  > gcc (GCC) 4.0.3 (Debian 4.0.3-1)
 >  > 
 >  > minit3:~# gcj --version
 >  > gcj (GCC) 4.0.3 20051204 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-5j2)
 >  > 
 >  > classpath version 0.19-2
 >  > 
 >  > Does anyone have any ideas regarding this error?  Anyone have luck 
 >  > running the jvm on Debian ARM?
 > 
 > Last time I looked the ARM port of gcj still wasn't done.  In
 > particular a libffi port still needs to be written.

My Monday morning memory is faulty.  I've traced throught the mailing
list archives and I see that Raffaele Sena ported libffi to the ARM.

Sorry for the misinformation.

Andrew.