libgcj/93

[Jeff Sturm]

The following reply was made to PR libgcj/93; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com>
To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
Cc: java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com, tromey@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libgcj/93
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 12:07:16 -0500

 Bryce McKinlay wrote:
 > I think we can we close this PR. The test case does not fail for me with
 > the current gcj/libgcj. Jeff, can you verify?
 
 It may be platform dependent.  I originally observed the core dump on
 x86, but that does seem to have been fixed... more recently it has been
 a problem on Alpha.  I really don't know why.  It could be a compiler
 bug.  GC problems can be notoriously difficult to debug.
 
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 Jeff Sturm
 jsturm@sigma6.com