GCJ Bug accessing field of inner class (gcc version 2.97 20010117)

Fri Jan 19 10:59:00 GMT 2001

"Boehm, Hans" wrote:
> The "Out of Memory" message is a warning from inside the garbage collector.
> I believe it means what it says, though that might be caused by an absurdly
> large memory request. However, this information should also subsequently be
> turned into an exception. (Ideally, there should be a Java API for turning
> off such warning messages. Currently, I believe there is only a C level
> API.)
>
There shouldn't be any large memory requests being generated; my test
program
just assigne one string and one int, in a constructor called only once.
Is there a way to turn off the gcc when compiling with gcj? I'd like to
see if
that makes any difference.
Thanks,
Barnet
>> Hans
>> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Wielaard [ mailto:mark@klomp.org ]
> > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 3:13 AM
> > To: Barnet Wagman
> > Cc: java-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: GCJ Bug accessing field of inner class (gcc version 2.97
> > 20010117)
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:56:23PM -0600, Barnet Wagman wrote:
> > > GCJ appears to be unable to access the field of an inner class from
> > > within a different class. Here's a simple example:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > After compiling with gcj, gcc version 2.97 20010117 (experimental),
> > > running it yields
> > >
> > > In HasInnerClass(), ic0.s = A
> > > stringggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
> > > Out of Memory! Returning NIL!
> > >
> > > instead of
> > >
> > > In HasInnerClass(), ic0.s = A
> > > stringggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
> > > In UsesInnerClass(), hic.ic0.s = A
> > > stringggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
> > >
> > >
> > > Is this a known bug?
> >
> > I am using 'gcc version 2.97 20010117 (experimental) from CVS
> > and everything works for me:
> >
> > $ gcj --main=A.UsesInnerClass A/HasInnerClass.java
> > A/UsesInnerClass.java
> > $ ./a.out
> > In HasInnerClass(), ic0.s = A
> > stringggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
> > In UsesInnerClass(), hic.ic0.s = A
> > stringggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
> >
> > I have no idea where that 'Out of Memory! Returning NIL!' is
> > coming from
> > that you see when running the program.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark
> >