Re: libgcj/67

[tromey at cygnus dot com]

The following reply was made to PR libgcj/67; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: tromey@cygnus.com
To: dey@nc.fnc.fujitsu.com, java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com,
  tromey@cygnus.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: libgcj/67
Date: 8 Nov 1999 17:13:14 -0000

 Synopsis: Core dump of simple application
 
 State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 State-Changed-By: tromey
 State-Changed-When: Mon Nov  8 09:13:14 1999
 State-Changed-Why:
     This is probably not a GC problem at all.  I imagine you
     can "cont" past the apparent GC SEGV to find the real SEGV.
     In some situations the GC causes SEGVs on purpose, and then
     traps them to get information (for instance it does this
     when finding stack limits).
     
     Instead I imagine this is the Solaris linker bug.
     You have to use the latest GNU ld with libgcj.
     This has been hashed out several times on the list,
     and is probably mentioned in the FAQ (though I'm not
     positive).
     
     Please get back to me on this so I can close the PR
     or investigate more fully.
 
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