Re: internal error - SP mismatch

[James CE Johnson <jcej at tragus dot org>]

Matt Welsh wrote:

> Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> writes:
> > Jeff> - get a gcc snapshot (and cross your fingers... recent snapshots
> > Jeff>   are notoriously unstable)
> >
> > Before you try this, note that gcc hasn't been able to build libgcj
> > for about 2 weeks.  Right now the development gcc can't even bootstrap
> > on x86.  So don't waste any time downloading gcc -- you'll just be
> > frustrated (like me :-).  If you can find a slightly older snapshot,
> > that might work.  Of course, then you'll be missing some of Alex's
> > improvements to the Java front end.  Sigh.
>
> Or, you can try using gcc-2.95.2 with the latest libgcj

By "latest libgcj" do you mean the stable 2.95.1 version or the one at the head of
the CVS repository?  Assuming you mean the former, I'm gonna go try that now.

> *and* the patches
> from Bryce at:
>         http://waitaki.otago.ac.nz/~bryce/gcj/
>
> This is what I'm experimenting with at the moment but I am running into some
> bugs which appear to be race conditions in the threads implementation (although
> it might be my application code, I'm not sure yet).
>
> Now, does anyone else think that we should do something about making these
> things more explicit on the web page? This is *extremely* frustrating.

As a newcomer... I'd vote for a note that says which snapshots work with which
gcc.

>
>
> Matt