Deadlock in Class::forName on OSX

[Juerg Lehni <juerg at scratchdisk dot com>]

I am new to gcj and am currently trying to get it work in an Adobe  
Illustrator plugin for which I previously used Apple's JVM. I want to  
switch to gcj in order to get around problems with the Rosetta  
PowerPC emulation, as the JVM cannot be invoked on Intel machines,  
but gcj should still run inside the Rosetta emulated Illstrator app.

I am using gcj version 4.2.0 20060318 (experimental) from http:// 
hpc.sourceforge.net/ and link libgcj.7.0.0.dylib to my XCode project,  
which uses Apple's default GCC 4 compiler without gcj support. The  
gcj VM is then invoked through the default JNI interface.

It all seems to work to the point where one of my libraries calls  
Class.forName, where it then seems to deadlock and hang forever.

When I pause the debugger, it randomly shows one of the stacktraces  
bellow, among other similar ones. Something seems to go on, but it  
never comces back from that call:

_Unwind_Find_FDE
uw_frame_state_for
_Unwind_RaiseException_Phase2
_Unwind_Resume
java::lang::Class::forName

_Unwind_Find_FDE
uw_frame_state_for
uw_init_context_1
_Unwind_Resume
java::lang::Class::forName

uw_update_context_1
uw_init_context_1
_Unwind_Resume
java::lang::Class::forName

Is this a problem with gcj version 4.2.0 20060318, or could it be due  
to the fact that I'm mixing libgcj with a non gcj version of gcc?

Please excuxe me if these are silly questions. I'm still at the  
beginning of all this, but I'm very excited by the possibilities of  
gcj and really would like to get it working.

Jürg