seg fault on startup

Tue Mar 20 17:37:00 GMT 2007

Ben Tatham writes:
 > More fuel for the investigation.
 > 
 > I have now tried to build our application with GCC-4.2-20070307, with 
 > the much simpler -static-libgcj option...
 > 
 > %.o : %.jar
 > $(gccdir)/bin/$(platform)-gcj $(includes) -c -g -O $<
 > 
 > apollo : $(objects)
 > $(gccdir)/bin/$(platform)-gcj -g -O -static-libgcj -o 
 > apollo.debug --main=ca.nanometrics.apollo.taurus.MissionControlTaurus 
 > $(objects)
 > $(gccdir)/bin/$(platform)-strip --strip-debug apollo.debug -o apollo
 > 
 > Unfortunately, it still seg faults right at startup. This time, I get a 
 > backtrace though. 
Ah, excellent.
 > Does this mean anything to anyone? Why does it say that the
 > language is c++ now though?
Because it is.
 > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
 > #0 _Jv_RegisterClasses (classes=0x10f80074)
 > at 
 > /disk1/xtool/crosstool-0.43/build/powerpc-860-linux-gnu/gcc-4.2-20070307-glibc-2.3.3/gcc-4.2-20070307/libjava/java/lang/natClassLoader.cc:189
 > 189 _Jv_RegisterClasses (const jclass *classes)
classes is a pointer to an array of pointers, terminated by NULL.
Every one of those pointers should pointo t a valid class structure
inside your app. Print them out.
Andrew.