[kaffe] java.lang.StackOverflowError on many ppc regression tests ...

[Djordje Nikolic]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 19:08 +0100, Guilhem Lavaux wrote:
> Djordje Nikolic wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > There are 12 failed regression tests currently on ppc with cvs HEAD.
> > I think Riccardo reported something similar.
> > 
> > Most noticeable is that this doesn't work:
> > 
> > try { ((Object)null).toString(); } catch(NullPointerException e) { }
> > 
> > It gets java.lang.StackOverflowError, 
> > and it's a reason for many regress failures.  
> > 
> > Apparently when nullExceptions() handler is called but ctx pointer
> > points to something that's not struct sigcontext and so test:
> > 
> > if (current_thread != NULL && stackptr <= current_thread->stackMin)
> > 
> > works, because stackptr is wrong, and stackOverflowHandler is called...
> > 
> > When using this patch, on ppc/linux/intrp/pthreads, I'm down to 3
> > regression failures.
> > 
> > Don't know if this patch is all that is to it, but it kinda works... :)
> > 
> 
> 
> Thank you very much Djordje. Actually SIGINFO should not be defined on 
> all architectures we use the real sigcontext structure. So your patch 
> should be fine (we are already doing this for ix86 ...). I'll apply now.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Guilhem.


Actually that fix makes ALL regression tests pass on linux/ppc,
except one, GCTest :)

Test ProhibitedClass.java is reported to fail but that's because of
different source file lines in test output, probably because I've used a
little older rt.jar ...

Regards,