Subject: Re: JDK status (was: Re: Netscape on macppc: it works!)
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <p99dreyf@criens.u-psud.fr>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/28/2001 13:51:32
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

: > That entirely depends on what the Blackdown people have done.  I don't have
: > a ppc on which to test.
: > So ... "try it!"  ("java -green", or edit jvm.conf.)
:
: It does not seems to work with 1.3...
:
: manu@trotsky</usr/local/jdk13/bin>./java -green -version
: java: ../../../../../src/solaris/hpi/green_threads/src/dl-malloc.c:1636:
: malloc_extend_top: Assertion `((size_t)((char*)(((mbinptr)(&(av_[2 *
: (0)])))->fd) + top_size) & (pagesz - 1)) == 0' failed.
: Abort (core dumped)

Then something is borking internal structures of the JVM; possibly, we don't
emulate what's needed to do Linux longjmp()/siglongjmp() properly.

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