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Re: Debugging libgcj on cygwin
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Pfaff <tpfaff@gmx.net> writes:
Thomas> The interpreter seems to be broken on cygwin, therefore i configure
Thomas> with --disable-interpreter. If i configure with --enable-interpreter
Thomas> the result is the same as without the patch:
Thomas> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
Thomas> _Jv_InterpMethod::run(void*, ffi_raw*) (this=0x1014be60,
Thomas> retp=0x22f730, args=0x22f750) at
Thomas> ../../../gcc-3.3/libjava/include/java-interp.h:230
Thomas> 230 next = *n;
Hopefully someone can debug this to find out what is wrong.
This is supposed to work.
Thomas> I think that the main problem with cygwin is that signals (especially
Thomas> SIGSEGV) are not thread safe at the moment. SIGSEGV is only handled
Thomas> correctly by the main thread.
This shouldn't matter. Cygwin is built with "can_unwind_signal=no",
meaning that we will emit code to detect null pointer accesses. So in
theory any SEGV you see will be the result of a real bug. (In
practice it is a little worse since our CNI code doesn't detect this
situation.)
Tom