libjava status on Solaris 8/Intel and IRIX 6.5

Mon Mar 18 15:51:00 GMT 2002

Rainer Orth wrote:
>>SEGV handler doesn't work: -fcheck-references.
>>>>Indeed. Same on sparc-sun-solaris2.8, so this is a generic Solaris 2
>problem. We probably need a new spec substitution for this (similar to
>DIVIDESPEC and friends)? Any suggestions for a good name, and I'll provide
>a patch and verify it.
>
Surely it would be better to use the sjlj exceptions rather than 
-fcheck-references? -fcheck-references is going to be really slow, while 
sjlj only adds overhead to "try" blocks.
regards
Bryce.