gcj/250: getClass() freezes program

[Bryce McKinlay]

The following reply was made to PR gcj/250; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
To: osk@hem.passagen.se
Cc: java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gcj/250: getClass() freezes program
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:30:02 +1200

 Hi Oskar,
 
 osk@hem.passagen.se wrote:
 
 > When compiling and running the program below,
 > two things may happen:
 >
 >   it crashes (SEGV)
 >   it freezes - nothing happens, not much CPU use,
 >                interrupting gets out of the program
 
 Thanks for your bug report. This is, unfortunatly, a known problem with
 the java.lang.Class vtable - calling several methods on instances of
 java.lang.Class from java code will result in crashing. It has been
 reported that static linking will work around this problem.
 
 See PR gcj/100
 
 regards
 
   [ bryce ]