Interpreting bytecode on a powerpc 405 EP

[Patrick Olinet]

Before starting the daunting task of compiling a new toolchain, I
would like to get some clues whether it will work or not.

Is there anybody out there with a gcj cross toolchain targeting PPC405
that could do the test for me, that is compile and run a piece of code
that interpret java bytecode at runtime ? I could provide a sample
code if needed. The toolchain version should be one of the latest.

Thanks for your proposals.

Patrick


On 4/19/07, Patrick Olinet <patrick.olinet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm a newbie on a project using gcj 3.4.3. We execute java code on a
> powerpc 405 EP with a linux 2.4.20 kernel. Our cross-platform
> toolchain was build two years ago by an other team and works fine.
> Today we want to interpret some java bytecode so as to load
> dynamically jar libraries. But, the executable fails when we try to
> load a simple java class. The sample below  fails with an illegal
> instruction whereas it works well on a X86 platform:
>
>     Class c = cc.loadClass("InterpretedClasse");
>     System.out.println("   we load: " + InterpretedClasse.class.getName());
>     InterfaceClasse  obj2= (InterfaceClasse)c.newInstance(); // GCJ crashes
>     System.out.println("   instance created:" + obj2.name());
>
> Has someone a similar experience with this kind of platform ?
> I don't know how to investigate?
> Maybe using the latest version of gcj will solve my problem?
> I will have a look at the libffi which could be the one to blame?
>
> Thanks
>
> Patrick Olinet
>