static alignment and hash sync

Bryce McKinlay bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz
Thu Jun 7 15:27:00 GMT 2001


On Friday, June 8, 2001, at 10:10  AM, Tony Kimball wrote:

> I am using gcc HEAD branch for a cygwin target.
> JV_HASH_SYNCHRONIZATION is enabled by the configure script.  The
> monitor implementation appears to require double-aligned object
> pointers (to use the 3 low order bits as flags), but the static
> initializers for at least the _Jv_##type##Class objects allocate their
> objects on word-aligned boundaries.  This results in assertion
> failures.
>
> Personally, I will work around this by disabling hash synchronization.
> I think the proper fix requires some discussion.

The hash synchronization is currently only supposed to be enabled on 
Linux targets. If it is getting enabled for a cygwin target then I think 
there is a configure error somewhere.

regards

   [ bryce ]



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