Porting Boehm-gc to embedded m68k environment

[Andrew Haley]

Boehm, Hans writes:
 > According to John, the bug is in gcj itself; the libgcj code is correct.

Ah, okay.  So, let me get this right: we need to add a test so that we
only use bitmap descriptors if sizeof (void*) == alignof (void*).  Right?

Andrew.


 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org 
 > > [mailto:java-owner@gcc.gnu.org]On Behalf Of
 > > Tom Tromey
 > > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:27 AM
 > > To: Boehm, Hans
 > > Cc: 'Andrew Haley'; John Neil; 'Jeff Sturm'; java@gcc.gnu.org
 > > Subject: Re: Porting Boehm-gc to embedded m68k environment
 > > 
 > > 
 > > >>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:
 > > 
 > > Hans> 1) It uncovered a bug in the GC descriptor generation code.  It
 > > Hans> should fall back to procedure descriptors if it sees any
 > > Hans> misaligned pointers.
 > > 
 > > Does this bug occur in gcj itself, or just the descriptor generation
 > > code in libgcj?  (I'd suspect the latter.)
 > > 
 > > Anyway, we can fix this pretty easily.
 > > 
 > > Tom
 > >