(fyi) SEGV in jc1 for java.util.Date (from jikes bytecode only)

Andrew Haley aph@pasanda.cygnus.co.uk
Mon May 10 08:29:00 GMT 1999


> From: Jon Olson <olson@mmsi.com>
> Organization: Modular Mining Systems
> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 08:06:27 -0700
> 
> I've found that jikes generates really terrible byte code.  The problem with
> the error above is caused by jikes routinely generating code immediately
> after an `athrow' instruction.  For byte code compilers, guavac generates
> incorrect code, jikes generates terrible code.  The only good byte code
> compiler I've found is Sun's `javac'.

Out of interest, have you had a look at the bytecode that gcj
generates?  I'd be interested in your opinion.

Andrew.


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