gcj on intel mac patches

Mon May 22 19:54:00 GMT 2006

On 22/mag/2006, at 21:07, Andi Vajda wrote:
> A few weeks ago you sent patches to this list that made it possible 
> to build gcj on Intel Mac OS X. I was able to build gcj once from 
> the trunk with your patches. The executable I then built with that 
> gcj were not functional.

What kind of problems are you having with the executables? I've not 
built gcc recently, but we are using gcj 4.0.2+patches for our 
product, and it is surely working (except for stack unwinding). I can 
send you 4.0.2 patches if you are interested.
> I'm trying to get into debugging this again but now trunk gcj 4.2 
> with your
> patches no longer builds. While building boehm-gc, I get:
>> /Users/vajda/gcc-4.2/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/Users/vajda/gcc-4.2/ 
> build/./gcc/ -B/Users/vajda/gcc-4.2/install/i386-apple-darwin8.6.1/ 
> bin/ -B/Users/vajda/gcc-4.2/install/i386-apple-darwin8.6.1/lib/ - 
> isystem /Users/vajda/gcc-4.2/install/i386-apple-darwin8.6.1/include 
> -isystem /Users/vajda/gcc-4.2/install/i386-apple-darwin8.6.1/sys- 
> include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/Users/vajda/gcc-4.2/trunk/boehm-gc/ 
> include -fexceptions -Iinclude -I././targ-include -I.//libc/include 
> -O2 -g -O2 -fexceptions -Iinclude -I././targ-include -I.//libc/ 
> include -c ../../../trunk/boehm-gc/pthread_support.c -fno-common - 
> DPIC -o .libs/pthread_support.o
> ../../../trunk/boehm-gc/pthread_support.c: In function 
> 'GC_attach_thread':
> ../../../trunk/boehm-gc/pthread_support.c:1184: error: 'struct 
> thread_stop_info' has no member named 'stack_ptr'

This seems tied to some changes in the boehm gc codebase that has 
occurred after my patch submission. I'll give it a try when I have 
some spare time, but at the moment I'm quite busy.
> On another note, how hard would it be to rework these patches for 
> gcj 3.4.6
> or gcj 4.1.0 ?

As I said before, 4.0.2 (and probably 4.0.3) can be patched 
successfully. Don't know about 4.1 branch (probably yes, choosing the 
right libffi patch).
Cheers,
 Sandro