Re: jikes vs. kaffe bug

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From: Archie Cobbs (archie@whistle.com)
Date: Tue Dec 22 1998 - 02:37:10 EST


Godmar Back writes:
> > Hmm.. seems the Exception problems with Jikes only happen in JIT
> > mode, not in interpreter mode..
> >
> > I'm looking into it but don't know alot about the JIT stuff.
> > My guess is that NOP's are confusing the PC counter, or something..
>
> Yes. Kaffe assumed that the bytecode instruction at the end of
> an exception handler range would have a corresponding valid native pc.
> However, only bytecode instructions that already emit native instructions
> have a valid native pc. Nop is not among them.
>
> My fix is to simply skip bytecode instructions until I find one that has
> a valid native pc.

Cool.. thanks for fixing that (but sorry your flight was cancelled).
I'm about to merge in the NEW_STRINGS stuff..

-Archie

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