[kaffe] Kaffe JIT on Alpha

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi Kapil,

--- Kapil Vaswani <kapil at csa.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know whether the kaffe v1.0.7 port for alpha on osf1 
> supports the JIT. Although I have been able to compile and install kaffe 

Kaffe supports a jit on alpha-osf since december 2000.
http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2000-December/026104.html

> with the JIT engine (with a tweak involving an unresolved snprintf in 
> external.c, snprintf is not supported on osf), I get the following 

Could you try the latest CVS version? If that one doesn't work (anf thr patch
makes it build), please post the patch.

> message when kaffe or javac is invoked. I have been able to run the 
> interpretor without problems. Any help will be appreciated.

> %>kaffe Test
> Internal error: caught an unexpected exception.
> Please check your CLASSPATH and your installation.
> java/lang/NullPointerException
> Abort process (core dumped)

If you give the CVS version a try, please take a look at FAQA/FAQ.debugging,
and post a stack trace of the exception in question.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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