[kaffe] Some obscure(?) problem...

[Jukka Santala]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> It doesn't really help much. The next thing I get in GDB is a kaffe crash in 
> xerces :( org.apache/xerces/StringPool.ensureCapacity(II)Z: the iaload array 
> index check at pc=7 causes a SIGSEGV, since the array on stack is null. That 
> doesn't seem to be picked up by the null check, though. Weird.

Thanks for looking at it. I tried to check into it myself quickly, but
xdebug (and xprof) don't appear compilable on my system right now. First
there's a no-brainer:

../../../kaffe/kaffe/xprof/gmonFile.c: In function `writeGmonRecord':
../../../kaffe/kaffe/xprof/gmonFile.c:136: `char' is promoted to `int'
when passed through `...'
../../../kaffe/kaffe/xprof/gmonFile.c:136: (so you should pass `int' not
`char' to `va_arg')

--- kaffe/xprof/gmonFile.c      23 May 2000 17:55:37 -0000      1.1
+++ kaffe/xprof/gmonFile.c      24 Apr 2002 08:12:23 -0000
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
                        strcpy(ghh.dimen, va_arg(args, char *));
                        break;
                case GRA_DimensionAbbrev:
-                       ghh.dimen_abbrev = va_arg(args, char);
+                       ghh.dimen_abbrev = va_arg(args, int);
                        break;
                case GRA_ProfilingRate:
                        *((int *)ghh.prof_rate) = va_arg(args, int);

After fixing that, xdebug still doesn't compile because machine_debug_file
isn't compiled in for some reason - why isn't exactly clear, as
debugFile.c is wrapped with checks for both KAFFE_XPROFILER and
KAFFE_XDEBUGGING. Rather than try to figure that out, I turned also
xprofiling on, but then the compile breaks with:

../xprof/.libs/libkaffexprof.a(xprofiler.o): In function
`enableXProfiling':
/home/jsantala/kaffe-build/kaffe/xprof/../../../kaffe/kaffe/xprof/xprofiler.c:243:
undefined reference to `_gmonparam'
/home/jsantala/kaffe-build/kaffe/xprof/../../../kaffe/kaffe/xprof/xprofiler.c:249:
undefined reference to `_gmonparam'

...etc.

Oh well, I guess it's off to try to figure out makefile magic ;)

 -Jukka Santala