Libjava failures status

Bryce McKinlay bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz
Tue Mar 12 03:20:00 GMT 2002


Jan Hubicka wrote:

>>It would be nice if we could avoid pessimising this too much. eg given:
>>
>>a = foo.a;
>>b = foo.b;
>>
>>Then obviously the second load from foo can not trap. I assume that 
>>would allow for larger BBs and that is good for optimization.
>>
>
>Concerning the memory traps, Java has references and bounding checks on arrays.
>How can one even access trapping memory in Java?
>

"foo" could be a null pointer: NullPointerException.

regards

Bryce.




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