ClassLoader: unexpected exception during linking

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Does this ring a bell with anyone?  Notice that the "cause"
is in _Jv_SetVTableEntries.

This is using the gcc trunk (cvs update on Dec 2 5pm PST) on
Red Hat 8.0. I compiled Kawa (using the configure --with-gcj
--enable-kawa-frontend).  I then get the following.

To me this suggests ClassLoaders are pretty broken ...

$ bin/kawa
#|kawa:1|# (define (foo x) x)
java.lang.InternalError: unexpected exception during linking
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.resolveClass0(java.lang.Class) 
(/home/bothner/GNU/linux/lib/libgcj.so.3.0.0)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.resolveClass(java.lang.Class) 
(/home/bothner/GNU/linux/lib/libgcj.so.3.0.0)
   at gnu.bytecode.ArrayClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String, 
boolean) (/new-root/tmp/kawa/bin/.libs/libkawa.so.0.0.0)
   at gnu.expr.ModuleExp.evalToClass(gnu.expr.Compilation) 
(/new-root/tmp/kawa/bin/.libs/libkawa.so.0.0.0)
   at gnu.expr.ModuleExp.evalModule(gnu.mapping.Environment, 
gnu.mapping.CallContext, gnu.expr.Compilation) 
(/new-root/tmp/kawa/bin/.libs/libkawa.so.0.0.0)
   at kawa.Shell.run(gnu.expr.Interpreter, gnu.mapping.Environment, 
gnu.mapping.InPort, gnu.lists.Consumer, gnu.mapping.OutPort) 
(/new-root/tmp/kawa/bin/.libs/libkawa.so.0.0.0)
   at kawa.Shell.run(gnu.expr.Interpreter, gnu.mapping.Environment, 
gnu.mapping.InPort, gnu.mapping.OutPort, gnu.mapping.OutPort) 
(/new-root/tmp/kawa/bin/.libs/libkawa.so.0.0.0)
   at kawa.Shell.run(gnu.expr.Interpreter, gnu.mapping.Environment) 
(/new-root/tmp/kawa/bin/.libs/libkawa.so.0.0.0)
   at kawa.Shell.run(gnu.expr.Interpreter) 
(/new-root/tmp/kawa/bin/.libs/libkawa.so.0.0.0)
   at kawa.repl.main(java.lang.String[]) 
(/new-root/tmp/kawa/bin/.libs/libkawa.so.0.0.0)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
   at _Jv_SetVTableEntries(java.lang.Class, _Jv_VTable) 
(/home/bothner/GNU/linux/lib/libgcj.so.3.0.0)
   at _Jv_SetVTableEntries(java.lang.Class, _Jv_VTable) 
(/home/bothner/GNU/linux/lib/libgcj.so.3.0.0)
   at _Jv_SetVTableEntries(java.lang.Class, _Jv_VTable) 
(/home/bothner/GNU/linux/lib/libgcj.so.3.0.0)
   at _Jv_SetVTableEntries(java.lang.Class, _Jv_VTable) 
(/home/bothner/GNU/linux/lib/libgcj.so.3.0.0)
   at _Jv_SetVTableEntries(java.lang.Class, _Jv_VTable) 
(/home/bothner/GNU/linux/lib/libgcj.so.3.0.0)
   at _Jv_MakeVTable(java.lang.Class) 
(/home/bothner/GNU/linux/lib/libgcj.so.3.0.0)
   at _Jv_PrepareClass(java.lang.Class) 
(/home/bothner/GNU/linux/lib/libgcj.so.3.0.0)

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	--Per Bothner
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