building with GCC-4.2 on amd64

Thomas Fitzsimmons fitzsim at redhat.com
Fri Nov 30 11:50:41 PST 2007


Matthias Klose wrote:
> Thomas Fitzsimmons schrieb:
>> Matthias Klose wrote:
>>> When building with GCC 4.2 from the 4.2 branch, all the demos in
>>> demos/jfc and
>>> the gcjwebplugin crash.
>> gcjwebplugin is built from one source file.  Can you file a bug against
>> GCC 4.2 for this, attaching gcjwebplugin.cc as the reproducer?
> 
> note that gcjwebplugin.cc is still built with -O3. I'm unsure if this is due to
> a miscompilation of gcjwebplugin.cc.

If the crash is happening in gcjwebplugin.so then the cause is likely a 
miscompilation of gcjwebplugin.cc rather than a miscompilation of IcedTea, since 
gcjwebplugin spawns IcedTea's appletviewer out-of-process.

Tom



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