java unexpected failures with inexplicable error messages

Mon Apr 28 09:52:00 GMT 2003

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
>>>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
>> Zack> I'm seeing TestEarlyGC and TestLeak fail in my builds, with
> Zack> runtime backtraces like this:
>> Zack> (1) Are these current expected failures, or did I break something?
>> Neither; these are fairly new bugs in libgcj. I tracked them down to
> a String change I made a while back. I must have missed the
> regression somehow. TestLeak clearly shows up in my database as
> failing on Apr 1; strangely, TestEarlyGC doesn't start failing until
> the 20th.
>> Anyway, I have a patch for the problem that I'm testing now. I'll
> check it in tomorrow, assuming that the test suite really has no
> regressions (and the two improvements) tonight.

Good to hear. The constant pool changes I've been making could
conceivably have done something like this, but I didn't see how.
> _Jv_equalUtf8Consts compares the hash values first. The bug was that
> we ended up with an incorrect hash value for one of the utf8const
> objects.

Ah. Thanks for the clarification.
zw