RE: GCJ on Linux

["Boehm, Hans" <hboehm at exch dot hpl dot hp dot com>]

Title: GCJ on Linux

Assuming this is a runtime failure, it's likely to be caused by the fact that Mandrake 6.1 aparently uses a kernel configured for > 1GB physical memory.  This causes the main process stack to start at an address different from what the garbage collector expects.  This is fixed in more recent versions of the garbage collector.

 

Hans

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Zahra [mailto:andzahra@nortelnetworks.com]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 5:48 PM
To: java-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Cc: Peter Nicholson; Justin Urbanski
Subject: GCJ on Linux

We have just installed gcj on a Linux/intel machine. When we compile a trivial hello world program we get a segmentation violation. Does GCJ work under Linux on intel?

Our system details:
Mandrake Linux 6.1

[root@zwolb00c gcc]# uname -a
Linux zwolb00c.asiapac.nortel.com 2.2.13-7mdksmp #1 SMP Wed Sep 15
16:38:50 CEST 1999 i686 unknown

[root@zwolb00c gcc]# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.1/specs

gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release)

[root@zwolb00c gcc]# gcj -dumpversion
2.95.1
[root@zwolb00c gcc]# gcj -dumpmachine
i686-pc-linux-gnu

Hardware is dual Celerons

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