Java on uClinux (was: Null pointer check elimination)

Tue Nov 15 11:18:00 GMT 2005

David Daney wrote:
> Perhaps not in general, but one unstated premise of this whole thread is 
> that for some GCC targets (most Unix like operating systems) you *can* 
> count on a SIGSEGV when you dereference a null pointer. The java front 
> end takes advantage of this fact to eliminate explicit checks for 
> dereferencing of null pointers.

Oh.
Speaking of which, has anyone ported gcj to a MMU-less uClinux platform yet?
Bernd