[ARM] Issues running vm on Debian ARM port

Mon Mar 20 11:30:00 GMT 2006

Andrew Haley writes:
 > Alex Karasulu writes:
 > > Hi all,
 > > 
 > > No matter what I try to run I get the following error from the vm:
 > > 
 > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
 > > at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(java.lang.String, 
 > > byte[], int, int, java.security.CodeSource) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
 > > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(java.lang.String) 
 > > (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
 > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String, boolean) 
 > > (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
 > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String) 
 > > (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
 > > at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
 > > 
 > > The OS is Debian etch for armeb. The machine type is an armv5tel. I'm 
 > > running the following in terms of gcc:
 > > 
 > > minit3:~# gcc --version
 > > gcc (GCC) 4.0.3 (Debian 4.0.3-1)
 > > 
 > > minit3:~# gcj --version
 > > gcj (GCC) 4.0.3 20051204 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-5j2)
 > > 
 > > classpath version 0.19-2
 > > 
 > > Does anyone have any ideas regarding this error? Anyone have luck 
 > > running the jvm on Debian ARM?
 > 
 > Last time I looked the ARM port of gcj still wasn't done. In
 > particular a libffi port still needs to be written.
My Monday morning memory is faulty. I've traced throught the mailing
list archives and I see that Raffaele Sena ported libffi to the ARM.
Sorry for the misinformation.
Andrew.