valgrinding GCJ Java code

[Tom Schutter]

Boehm, Hans wrote:
> I don't know what the specific issue is here.

The specific issue is that control never returns from JvCreateJavaVM()
or JNI_CreateJavaVM() when the app is run under valgrind.

> I would expect lots of bogus problem reports for the garbage collector.
> For example, the collector scans complete stacks for pointers.  Some of those
> stacks are likely to be uninitialized.  (The way to fix these would be to
> teach valgrind about the garbage collector.  I don't know if it has hooks
> for the GC to tell it what's going on.)

Valgrind does have some hooks for this sort of thing, but that is way 
beyond my understanding.

> If you are looking for a memory overwrite problem, the patch in
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2004-03/msg00222.html (for which I'm still hoping
> for feedback!) should also provide some checking, which might help.

I will keep that one in mind, thanks.

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