[fedora-java] Re: java issues on ppc

[Andrew Haley]

Robin Green writes:
 > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:01:59 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
 > 
 > > I'm working on packaging plplot for Fedora Extras.  It has a Java 
 > > interface that appears to work fine on x86 but not on ppc.  Basically 
 > > the Java stuff is just a JNI wrapper to the C library.
 > > 
 > > Is there any way to run the java byte-code/JVM under a debugger?  My 
 > > first attempt to debug was to compile the program to native code and run 
 > > under gdb as mentioned on the gcj website, but the native code appears 
 > > to run fine.
 > 
 > It's tricky - but possible - to debug interpreted bytecode. JDWP
 > protocol support is being worked on, but it's not ready yet.
 > 
 > Is plplot multithreaded? I've just discovered a thread-safety bug
 > in the gij interpreter which has lain unfixed for several years:
 > 
 >  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23367
 > 
 > I'm told that this bug only affects the interpreter.

Can you please tell us how this should be changed?  Not necessarily a
patch, but an outline of one.

Andrew.