[PATCH] Set correct source location for deallocator calls

Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com
Tue Sep 4 16:40:00 GMT 2012


On 09/04/2012 05:32 PM, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Dehao Chen <dehao@google.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On 08/30/2012 08:20 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>> Is the problem simply that the logic to
>>>> scan the assembly code isn't present in the libgcj testsuite?
>>>
>>> Yes, exactly.
>>
>> For this case, I don't think that we want a testcase to rely on
>> addr2line in the system. So how about that that we add a test when
>> assembly scan is available in libgcj testsuit?
> 
> Once Ian Lance Taylor's libbacktrace patch is integrated (see:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-08/msg00317.html), we'll be able to get
> rid of the code that calls addr2line from libgcj.

As I understand it, Ian Taylor's backtrace patch is intended for use in
gcc development, and as he puts it "Since its use in GCC would
be purely for GCC developers, it's not essential that it be fully
portable."  Not for gcj runtime.

Andrew.



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