Release stuff

Tue Mar 12 12:21:00 GMT 2002

There are still exception handling issues on IA-64 Linux. I think we have
adequate patches for them, but they haven't made it in yet. Basically we
need to:
1) Enable dwarf2 exceptions on IA64 in libjava.
2) Check in Andrew Haley's Itanium libjava exception handling patches. I
think there were concerns about checking these in as is.
3) Check in a patch for the IA64 unwinder in libgcc. There are problems
with the label_state and copy_state unwind directives. This started to
matter when gcc started using them. (This patch is mostly derived from a
kernel patch that came from David Mosberger.)
I will post the patch (3) shortly once I do a bit more testing. I will also
repost the others, so that we can hopefully make progress.
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Tromey [mailto:tromey@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:30 AM
> To: Java Discuss List
> Subject: Release stuff
>>> I'm trying to track our state so we can try to have meaningful input
> into the 3.1 release process.
>> Here are the PRs I think we must fix:
>> 5876 jc1 crashes when targeting mingw32
> I believe this is the problem we think was introduced by my
> builtin function patch. Is that right?
> 5879 throwing exceptions causes SEGV in GCJ-compiled code
> Regression introduced in December
> 5898 build failure in libgcj due to a internal error
> Recent build regression
> 5912 gcj -R doesn't work for mingw32 cross compiler
> I think we have a patch for this.
> We want mingw32 in this release
> 5923 gcj -C generates incorrect bytecode
> This is probably a regression, though I'm not certain
> 5924 gij fails with current link line
> Definitely a regression
>> This list has grown a lot in the last week :-(
>>> Here are the platforms I think we currently support.
>> x86 Linux
> alpha Linux
> IA-64 Linux
> PPC Linux
> Sparc Solaris
> I don't know what releases
> MIPS Irix
> I don't know what releases; building here might be a 
> little difficult
> x86 Mingw32
> Only works as a target, not a host.
> Is still incomplete (at least Process does not work yet)
>>> If you think there is a missing PR, please tell me. If there is a
> critical bug that isn't in a PR, point me to the bug report and I will
> file a PR.
>> If you think there is a missing platform that either worked in the
> last release or that has been added since then, tell me.
>> Once we've got a final list I'll make sure Mark knows about it. Some
> of the PRs above aren't really "ours". They were caused by non-Java
> changes. I plan to work on the Java-related PRs (though of course
> work might intervene unpredictably).
>> Tom
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