Crash invoke()'ing Method with "double" as return type

Martin Egholm Nielsen martin@egholm-nielsen.dk
Tue Jun 27 14:02:00 GMT 2006


Hi,

> Martin> Just ran into a strange problem on my target: When calling invoke() on
> Martin> a java.lang.reflect.Method returning a double, my target crashes with
> Martin> an "Illegal instruction" attempting to return:
> 
> Martin> And it's not working on double in general that sucks - output line 3
> Martin> is the output after invoking the same method in a non-reflective
> Martin> manner.
> 
> This I don't recall.
> 
> Martin> This is on my ancient (hacked) GCJ 3.4.x, running on my PPC405EP
> Martin> target... I know it's old - but does it ring a bell?
> 
> The only problem I recall is that returning a double via libffi on
> PPC64 could cause a buffer overflow.  

Maybe it's a similar problem. I've tracked down the problem to occur 
invoking "ffi_call_SYSV" in "sysv.S" (from ffi.c's "ffi_call"). And 
that's where my trace stop.

So, next step is to try with SVN trunk - if possible...

// Martin



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