Problem with static fields and indirect-dispatch

[Casey Marshall <csm at gnu dot org>]

Hi, I'm seeing a problem with a 4.2.0 snapshot. The following program  
fails to run; without the patch mentioned, it still fails, but in  
`java.lang.Class.initializeClass,' not in `testbc.<clinit>'. Without  
the patch, it fails at line 1663 of link.cc, which is the `if' in:

  jstring *strp = (jstring *) f->u.addr;
  if (*strp)
    *strp = _Jv_NewStringUTF8Const ((_Jv_Utf8Const *) *strp);

Running this interpreted, or compiled directly works; compiling it  
with -findirect-dispatch and launching it with `gij' fails.

Thanks.

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/*
 * Steps to reproduce:
 * 1. gcj -C testbc.java
 * 2. jar cf testbc.jar testbc.class
 * 3. gcj -shared -g -O2 -findirect-dispatch -o testbc.jar.so  
testbc.jar
 * 4. gcj-dbtool -n testbc.gcjdb 32
 * 5. gcj-dbtool -a testbc.gcjdb testbc.jar testbc.jar.so
 * 6. gij -cp testbc.jar -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=testbc.gcjdb  
testbc
 *
 * Expected output:
 * {}
 * Actual output:
 * Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
 *   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass (natClass.cc:758)
 *   at java.lang.Class.forName (Class.h:641)
 *   at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run (MainThread.java:95)
 * Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
 *   at testbc.<clinit> (testbc.java:5)
 *   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass (natClass.cc:750)
 *   ...2 more
 *
 * Version info:
 * gcj (GCC) 4.2.0 20060506 (experimental)
 * Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 * This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.   
There is NO
 * warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A  
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 *
 * This patch was applied to the sources:
 * http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2006-q2/msg00127.html
 *
 * Host triplet (build and target): i686-pc-linux-gnu.
 */

import java.util.Hashtable;

public class testbc
{
  protected static Hashtable cache = new Hashtable();

  public static void main (String[] s) throws Throwable
  {
    System.out.println (cache);
  }
}

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