Porting Boehm-gc to embedded m68k environment

Wed Nov 12 19:03:00 GMT 2003

According to John, the bug is in gcj itself; the libgcj code is correct.
Hans
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> [mailto:java-owner@gcc.gnu.org]On Behalf Of
> Tom Tromey
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:27 AM
> To: Boehm, Hans
> Cc: 'Andrew Haley'; John Neil; 'Jeff Sturm'; java@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Porting Boehm-gc to embedded m68k environment
>>> >>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:
>> Hans> 1) It uncovered a bug in the GC descriptor generation code. It
> Hans> should fall back to procedure descriptors if it sees any
> Hans> misaligned pointers.
>> Does this bug occur in gcj itself, or just the descriptor generation
> code in libgcj? (I'd suspect the latter.)
>> Anyway, we can fix this pretty easily.
>> Tom
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