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RE: Small example of livelock regression in garbage collector for GCJ 3.3 under Win32
- From: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
- To: "'Andrew Haley'" <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 19:16:02 +0200
- Subject: RE: Small example of livelock regression in garbage collector for GCJ 3.3 under Win32
> Right, so it's related to the way that null pointer
> exceptions are caught on Win32. That's weird, because I
> thought that platform generated pointer checks.
Division by zero can also cause the application to terminate
(as well as livelock).
If I add "throw new NullPointerException();" I do not see the problem.
Øyvind