> This is an observation relevant for the (probably few...) users of Jmol > on Alpha/OSF1 (aka TRU64) machines:
No doubt there are very few :-) > Jmol v10pre11 crashes as soon as it tries to read in a file; the error > message is > > Assertion failed: loc2mode(x) == loc2mode(y), file > /vobs/JavaGroup/Products/Java/J2SDK/fastvm/srcjava/sys/alpha/ > compiler.c, line 3270 > > This happens both with Java 1.4.2-3 and 1.4.1-beta. The problem seems > to be related to HP's Fast Virtual Machine. Yes, this is clearly a Java compiler bug. The assertion is failing within their compiler. I encourage you to file a bug report with HP. > Starting Jmol with 'java > -classic' (thus disabling the Fast VM) solves the problem. > Jmol v9 runs fine with either VM. Hmmm ... interesting that v9 runs OK. The machines that are less main-stream seem to have more problems with their JVMs. I am aware of some JVM problems with Java 1.4.? on SGI Octane systems. Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
