PowerPC kernel and C sages,
After poking around with this issue for a week, one of my associates
in the Debian Java Packaging project has suggested I run this by those
in the know about C nuances on PowerPC architecture.
I have been running the Eclipse JDT for Java(TM) development on a
ppc sid install with the IBM 1.4.2 JDK for 32-bit PowerPC for some time
now. I recently migrated from my Titanium PowerBook to one of the
new(er) 15" Aluminum 1.67GHz units:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
clock : 1666MHz
revision : 1.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
bogomips : 1658.88
machine : PowerBook5,6
motherboard : PowerBook5,6 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
detected as : 287 (Unknown Intrepid-based)
pmac flags : 00000008
L2 cache : 512K unified
memory : 2048MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
$ uname -a
Linux case 2.6.11.10barryh.1 #1 Tue May 24 12:44:30 EDT 2005 ppc GNU/Linux
The only difference I can think of between this machine and the
previous one is that I have the gcc-4.0 package and friends installed
from experimental. I have been told that this should not affect the
use of the IBM JDK in the way that I am experiencing. I have tried
using different versions of the Eclipse binary install, building from
source, mutliple "clean" installs of the JDK, etc. I have filed a bug
report with Eclipse, bug #97375[0], which has one of the JDK core dumps
attached to it. If anyone has any insight, I would greatly appreciate
it. Also, if anyone begins to experience this behavior, please reply
to this thread.
[0] - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=97375
Regards,
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Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
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