java crash from tom tromey

[David Carlton]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:50:50 -0400, Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> said:

> Can someone teach me about anonymous objfiles?

> What are they for?

I believe the Java dynamic class objfile is the only anonymous objfile
we have.  It's used as a place to store debug information that isn't
associated to any actual physical file.  Probably jv-lang.c's use of
it is a hack; having said that, our choices are, basically, either to
give up on Java debugging or to continue to deal with this hack.

I'm very glad that Tom has provided a reproducible test case for this;
I would suggest checking it in to our test suite ASAP.  My only qualm
with it is that I can't compile the test case myself, because my
installed GCJ (whatever came with Red Hat 8.0) doesn't know about
Arc2D.  Tom: is there some RPM that I can download to fix that (or I
could just recompile GCJ myself), or (better) is it possible to modify
the test case to use a more widely-available package?

David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com