[kaffe] weird GC error with bad class format

Timothy Stack stack at cs.utah.edu
Tue Feb 4 09:36:01 PST 2003


> 
> Hi Tim and Dalibor.

hi,

> > Are you using the current CVS?
> 
> i just downloaded a fresh copy of the current CVS, applied the patch Tim
> posted and then made the change in readAttributes (readClass.c) that i
> suggested earlier which is simply to add this case into the list of cases:
> 
> 	else if (!strcmp(name->data, "Signature") {
> 		return false;
> 	}

Oh, forgot...  Since you're returning false its expecting an error 
message in 'einfo'.  For example:

	postExceptionMessage(einfo,
			     JAVA_LANG(ClassFormatError),
			     "(class: %s) ...",
			     CLASS_CNAME(this));

otherwise, you get this error:

> 	Exception thrown on null object ... aborting
> 	Aborted

> cheers,
> ~rob

tim




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