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Date:      Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:00:46 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), marcel@cup.hp.com, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM JDK fails due to lack of SA_SIGINFO support
Message-ID:  <200009061700.LAA28404@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <14774.29608.353021.688597@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <14773.43466.744621.411519@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200009060447.WAA23183@nomad.yogotech.com> <14774.29608.353021.688597@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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>  > > Currently the IBM jdk & jvm don't run under our linux abi.  This had
>  > > previously been attributed to the "sigaltstack: Cannot allocate
>  > > memory" message one sees when running it.  Upon further investigation,
>  > > this appears to be a red herring.
>  > 
>  > Umm, I'd believe this except that someone sent me a patch (which I've
>  > forwarded to Marcel) that fixes this and is related to the sigalstack
>  > error above.  At least the author of the patch claims that the IBM JDK
>  > now runs successfully on his box, running some version of FreeBSD. :)
> 
> Perhaps he's using a different version of the IBM java stuff?  I'm
> using the "IBMJava2-SDK-13.tgz" that I downloaded last week.  On a
> linux box, (where I can actually get version info) :

Possibly.

>  > Hmm, I'm at a loss.  I've heard that things work fine with the
>  > signalstack issues fixed, so maybe the java program that he is running
>  > doesn't tickle the bug, although I find that rather difficult to believe
>  > given that almost every Java program known to man is multi-threaded.
> 
> Maybe IBM moved to using SA_SIGINFO handlers for their thread
> coordination?

Maybe.  I'm just the man in the middle. :(



Nate


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