Alignment of stack traces

Wed Feb 28 18:10:00 GMT 2001

"Boehm, Hans" wrote:
> natThrowable.cc contains the code:
>> // ??? Might this cause a problem if the byte array isn't aligned?
> stackTrace = JvNewByteArray (n * sizeof p[0]);
> memcpy (elements (stackTrace), p+1, (n * sizeof p[0]));
>> What's the right solution here? Should the stack trace just be an array of
> java longs? This would overconstrain the 32-bit case, but that doesn't seem
> to be a big deal.

Or an Array of Objects? Maybe we need a new type that is like RawData except it
is marked by GC, but isn't expected to have the usual java object header.
regards
 [ bryce ]