Small example of livelock regression in garbage collector for GCJ 3.3 under Win32

Tue May 20 17:16:00 GMT 2003

Øyvind Harboe writes:
 > > 
 > >I take it that this is a null pointer exception. Presumably 
 > >throwing any exception here would do the same thing. Did you tyr?
 > 
 > I tried with "throw new Exception();". No livelock.
Right, so it's related to the way that null pointer exceptions are
caught on Win32. That's weird, because I thought that platform
generated pointer checks.
Andrew.