Re: CVS MinGW (Crossed-)Native Compiler is Toast

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at mckinlay dot net dot nz>]

On Monday, Sep 22, 2003, at 10:46 Pacific/Auckland, Mohan Embar wrote:

> I usually have terrible luck with gdb on Windows.
>
> I modified tree_class_check_failed in gcc/tree.c and added the
> line debug_tree(node); before the call to internal_error.
>
> I get this:
>
>  <complex_type 41f180
>
> ...and then a segfault.
>
> Something seems horribly wrong. I'm not sure whether a complex_type 
> node
> is really being built or whether something is just plain hosed. I'll 
> keep digging
> but would appreciate any tips or insight. I can't understand why the 
> cross compiler
> doesn't behave this way.

complex_type isn't used in the java front end so this is a bogus node. 
It looks like gcj is trying to issue some error but crashing in the 
process. I recommend persevering with gdb - you should be able to get a 
backtrace at least, and that ought to give a lot more insight into the 
problem.

Regards

Bryce.