Interpreting bytecode on a powerpc 405 EP

Thu Apr 19 10:53:00 GMT 2007

Hello all,
I'm a newbie on a project using gcj 3.4.3. We execute java code on a
powerpc 405 EP with a linux 2.4.20 kernel. Our cross-platform
toolchain was build two years ago by an other team and works fine.
Today we want to interpret some java bytecode so as to load
dynamically jar libraries. But, the executable fails when we try to
load a simple java class. The sample below fails with an illegal
instruction whereas it works well on a X86 platform:
 Class c = cc.loadClass("InterpretedClasse");
 System.out.println(" we load: " + InterpretedClasse.class.getName());
 InterfaceClasse obj2= (InterfaceClasse)c.newInstance(); // GCJ crashes
 System.out.println(" instance created:" + obj2.name());
Has someone a similar experience with this kind of platform ?
I don't know how to investigate?
Maybe using the latest version of gcj will solve my problem?
I will have a look at the libffi which could be the one to blame?
Thanks
Patrick Olinet