Weird New libjava Testsuite Failure (PR java/14104)

Wed Mar 17 19:38:00 GMT 2004

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Andrew Haley writes:
> > Ranjit Mathew writes:
> > > 
> > > Any insights into the problem or at least how to
> > > try to reproduce it reliably?
> > 
> > I'll have a look.
>> Okay, so it's even weirder than I thought. If I rename libjava.jar to
> libjava.0jar in order to make it run first in the testsuite, it
> doesn't fail either!
>> We have a real Heisenbug here...

Oh yes - and it does not seem dependent on the order
either - if I rename "libjava.jar" to say "libjava.jacks123"
so that it is still executed in the same order, it doesn't
fail - however, if I rename it back to "libjava.jar", it
duly fails! I am able to consistently reproduce this
over several runs. What the...
> FWIW, there is a way to catch this: install a SEGV signal handler that
> either sends the process SIGSTOP or goes into an infinite loop. I'll
> do it.

Sorry, I didn't understand this fully. Are you trying to
bypass GCC's ICE reporting?
Ranjit.
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