[kaffe] IA-64 status

[Dalibor Topic]

--- Gwenole Beauchesne <gbeauchesne@mandrakesoft.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > You might get a more useful test failure if you
> compile with jikes.
> > Then, ideally, one of the actual tests will fail
> (vs. compilation of
> > the test) and that should help pinpoint the
> problem.
> 
> Guess what? I could manually compile
> ThreadState.java for example. That 
> is:
> . ../../BUILD_ENVIRONMENT
> $JAVA at.dms.kjc.Main ThreadState.java
> 
> Then running it prints three "success" then
> segfaults.
> 
> - Interestingly another test that failed (internal
> error while 
> compiling) was URLTest. Again, manually compiling it
> succeeds. Likewise 
> for running it. That's with the "pthreads"
> implementation. I could 
> manually compile many of those tests that failed to
> compile at make 
> check.
> 
> - Case of DoubleComp.java. Even manually compiling
> it fails with kjc 
> (internal error, java/lang/NullPoinerException
> caught). However, 
> compiling it with jikes succeeds. The test run
> succeeds too.

That sounds really weird. Just a suggestion: could you
try to recompile using gcc 3.1 and confirm that the
bugs still happen ? gcc 3.0.x is a rather buggy gcc in
my experience.

cheers,

dalibor topic

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