Question about POSIX libgcj signals / exception handling

Mon Mar 13 12:18:00 GMT 2006

Andrew Pinski writes:
 > 
 > On Mar 11, 2006, at 1:08 AM, David Daney wrote:
 > 
 > > SIGSEGV gets converted to NullPointerException. This is unconditional 
 > > it happens even if the faulting location is far away from address 
 > > zero. Native code is not treated any differently than the java 
 > > code. Any SIGSEGV is converted to NPE.
 > 
 > This is not true for the PPC OS X implementation. Only null pointer 
 > accesses are
 > converted to NPEs.
In that case, I guess we can't use SIGSEGV handlers to handle NPEs.
Unfortunate, but it should still work OK.
Andrew.