Matthias Klose wrote: > dann frazier schrieb: >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:09:25PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Luk Claes <l...@debian.org> wrote: >>>> * Has progress been made regarding proper java support? >>> What is considered proper java support? GCJ? >>> >>> Dave, have you tinkered with GCJ lately? > > GCJ-4.4 works fine on hppa, currently waiting in NEW ... so if you do want to > see this resolved, please help with getting this accepted. > > Note that this doesn't work very well with NPTL (Ubuntu karmic), so please > make > sure that this continues to work with an glibc update. > > OpenJDK is non-trivial. Andrew Haley did have a look at this and came to the > conclusion that the byte code interpreter for the zero port needs porting for > archs with upward growing stacks.
It might not be horribly difficult to fix. The crash comes when the VM calls mprotect() on the second page of the stack as a guard against stack overflow: obviously that isn't going to work if your stack grows upwards. I don't know if that is the only place in which the VM assumes the stack grows downwards. It's a matter of debugging, if anyone on hppa cares enough to get OpenJDK working. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hppa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org