gij runs HelloWorld on PPC Linux

[jeff.sturm@appnet.com]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > gij Final        
> > 
> > (this returns the string "this should not happen" which is incorrect)
> Same here:
> $ gij Final 
> This should not happen
> 
> > gij Primes
> > 
> > (this seems to run in an infinite loop never printing any Primes)
> Although this class takes a while (more then 30 seconds) it does
> print primes and finishes eventually. (output attached)

Those results match mine on Alpha.  The erroneous Final output is caused
by a bug in the interpreter.  One possible fix is:


Index: interpret.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/libjava/interpret.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -r1.22 interpret.cc
--- interpret.cc	2000/10/20 23:25:57	1.22
+++ interpret.cc	2001/02/11 21:00:08
@@ -684,7 +684,10 @@
 	  {
 	    // final methods do not appear in the vtable,
 	    // if it does not appear in the superclass.
-	    fun = (void (*)()) rmeth->method->ncode;
+	    if (sp[0].o)
+	      fun = (void (*)()) rmeth->method->ncode;
+	    else
+	      throw new ::java::lang::NullPointerException;
 	  }
 	else
 	  {