[kaffe] Kaffe Segmentation Fault

[Michael Koch]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:58:30AM -0400, Mike Drozdick wrote:
> Hi.
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> I successfully built/installed/tested Kaffe on a i386 linux machine running
> CentOS4.3, building with gcc 3.4.5. I tested kaffe with a simple "java
> HelloWorld" and everything worked fine! (The "java" is the kaffe alias.)
> 
>  
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> I repeated the exact procedure on another machine running Fedora Core 5,
> building with gcc 4.1.1. Everything built, but when I tried "java
> HelloWorld" I got a Sementation Fault with no additional information. I
> tried MANY experiments altering various <configure> options; no change.
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> Suspecting the compiler, I reverted to gcc 3.4.5 as in the successful case,
> repeated the entire procedure from scratch on the Fedora 5 machine, and
> still got the Segmentation Fault.
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>  
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> Does anyone recognize this symptom or have any ideas? Any thoughts would be
> most welcome.

GCC 4.1 is known to give some headaches. Which version of kaffe have you
tried? 1.1.7 or recent CVS? There are some fixes for GCC 4.1 in CVS.


Cheers,
Michael
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