stack overflow & null pointer exceptions

Wed Apr 21 08:10:00 GMT 1999

> From: Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu>
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:26:15 -0600 (MDT) 
>> Hi,
>> it appears that gcj does not yet implement stack overflow errors properly:
> the following program segfaults. 
>> Apropos segfaulting: it also appears as though NullPointerExceptions aren't
> properly caught (?). See the second test case.

NullPointerExceptions and ArithmeticExceptions are now caught on x86
Linux and SPARC Solaris. I'm still considering what to do about stack
overflows.
Andrew.