RE: [Jamvm-general] Re: jamvm + classpath CVS

[Jeroen F. <je...@su...>]

Michael Koch wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 9. Dezember 2004 14:32 schrieb Robert Lougher:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > By the time I downloaded classpath cvs and builit it, I didn't have
> > long to work on this.  I put in the native methods, and modified
> > the VM classes.  I'm now getting stuck in a recursive class
> > initialisation dependency.  I've not investigated it very far, but
> > it appears that SystemProperties.<clinit> forces Runtime.<clinit>,
> > which uses SystemProperties -- as it's being initialised, we return
> > (step 3 of initialisation process), accessing properties, which is
> > null (hence the NullPointerException).  BTW, it ends up as a
> > NoClassDefError because Runtime gets marked as bad.
> >
> > I'll have a look at it again tonight.  Did you manage to get past
> > this stage?  I may post something onto the classpath list but I
> > want to make sure I've not done anything stupid first :)
>=20
> I hit the same problem. I thought it was me doing something=20
> stupd with the native methods. I think I concluded wrong.
>=20
> I CC'ed Jeroen now as he wrote the patch. Perhaps he can say=20
> something=20
> about this.
>=20
> Jeroen: I think we have a problem with initialization in GNU=20
> classpath. Can you tell us something about the above ?

Can you figure out why SystemProperties is initializing Runtime? That
doesn't happen for me (and it shouldn't happen).

Regards,
Jeroen