XML/SAX2/DOM2 and GCJ

Tue Dec 28 21:08:00 GMT 1999

Hi,
I thought some folk here might be interested in this ... I have
sets of various XML utilities, and the current releases are set
up to run with GCJ. This is much richer functionality than the
earlier post on this topic (Nov 15 from Joerg Brunsmann, Makefile
to build XP + SAX1) since its APIs are more up to date (SAX2alpha,
DOM2), it includes other utilities (e.g. printing XML and XHTML),
and even has a (new/rough) validating parser based on the old
classic (small, fast) AElfred:
	http://home.pacbell.net/david-b/xml/
What I'm struggling with right now is getting the XML conformance
test harness (same URL) to behave right when used with GCJ. GCJ is
fast for XML parsing, slow for DOM method invocation. More useful
for testing, perhaps, is that my configuration (1-Dec GCJ + 10-Dec
LIBGCJ) consistently turns up various GCJ-specific failures when I
run about 1100 test cases through it; the downside is that those
failures indicate something breaking at some point and causing the
failures in unrelated code. (A failure mode I've not yet seen to
be mentioned on this list, though perhaps it's no surprise.)
I've downloaded today's GCJ/LIBCJ snapshots and will see if they
still reproduce these failures. If so, I'll report them in an
appropriate level of detail.
- Dave
p.s. Just catching up on e-mail ... congrats on the Classpath/libgcj
	joinup! I'm _really_ looking forward to an upcoming GCC/GCJ
	release with Java working well "out of the box" ... be it from
	RedHat, Debian, SuSE, Corel, or what have you !!!!