Libjava failures status

Tue Mar 12 03:14:00 GMT 2002

> Jan Hubicka wrote:
>> >Now, at least according to the internal check, we maitain the BB boundaries
> >consistent and we should reorder over them. I plan to add symetrical check
> >verifying that we do not discover trapping instruciton in the middle of 
> >basic
> >block - so far I am just checking that if there is EH edge there is 
> >trapping
> >instruction just before it. 
> >
>> It would be nice if we could avoid pessimising this too much. eg given:
>> a = foo.a;
> b = foo.b;
>> Then obviously the second load from foo can not trap. I assume that 
> would allow for larger BBs and that is good for optimization.

Concerning the memory traps, Java has references and bounding checks on arrays.
How can one even access trapping memory in Java?
Honza