[kaffe] [ClassToInterface.class] Segmentation fault

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi Brian,

C. Brian Jones wrote:
> Wanted to test serialization using kaffe 1.1.3 but make fails as
> reported here,
> http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2004-January/044814.html.  I think
> a fix might be in CVS, but unsure of whether to try building from CVS...
> let me know (I'm not on the mailing list).

No fix in CVS yet, afaik. Fedora Core 1 seems to be doing something 
nasty that breaks our jitters [1]. I've tried to debug it but the Fedora 
Core 1 gdb seems to be broken [2] so I didn't get too far.

So until a brave Fedora Core using developer manages to fix the jitter, 
you'll have to use the interpreter. Configure kaffe with 
--with-engine=intrp on your ./configure line, and it should build fine.

In any case, the current CVS has seen further improvements in 
serialization from Guilhem, so you may want to try it out anyway.

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] Or it's a bug in kaffe's jitters that only shows up on Fedora Core 
1, of all i368-linux distributions ;)
[2] It failed to show me useable backtraces of anything, since it 
coudn't find the source code, or something like that, as far as I 
remember. A lot of other things seem to be broken in Fedora Core 1, but 
going into it would be a long pointless rant that doesn't belong on the 
kaffe mailing list.