gcj/250: getClass() freezes program

[Tom Tromey]

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

From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
Cc: apbianco@cygnus.com, java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gcj/250: getClass() freezes program
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:06:08 -0700 (PDT)

 Bryce>  Thanks for your bug report. This is, unfortunatly, a known
 Bryce>  problem with the java.lang.Class vtable - calling several
 Bryce>  methods on instances of java.lang.Class from java code will
 Bryce>  result in crashing. It has been reported that static linking
 Bryce>  will work around this problem.
 
 We believe this is an ld.so bug.
 I think we'll know soon.
 
 Tom