Why does this program cause an NPE in LibgcjInternalFinalizerThread ??

Wed Aug 20 00:36:00 GMT 2003

>>>Sounds plausible. gdb doesn't let me print the "ref" variable
>directly, however the only register I have that looks like a heap pointer
>is $eax:
>>(gdb) x $eax
>0x8180c78: 0x407f1568
>(gdb) x 0x407f1568
>0x407f1568 <_ZTVN4java4lang6StringE+8>: 0x407f15a0
>>x /x *(int **)ref
You can have all sorts of fun adding varients of this to breakpoint 
commands and conditions.
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