Hi there,
I'm running an embedded platform based on a powerpc 405EP CPU and a
gcc 4.1.0 cross-toolchain. My initial problem was that gcj compiled
binaries crash at runtime when interpreting java bytecode ("Illegal
instruction" message).
After many investigations, it looks like the problem comes from the
libffi library : I've run the libffi testsuite on my embedded paltform
and many of the tests show the same "Illegal instruction" message. For
instance, the "cls_uint" test crashes at the following line (from the
cls_uint.c file) :
res = (*((cls_ret_uint)pcl))(2147483647);
My knowledge about the powerpc architectures is very limited, but I've
seen mailing lists threads talking about "EABI" that I don't quite
understand but my intuition is that it could be related. For instance,
could it be that my cross toolchain is not compiled with the right
EABI (does this question make sense??) ?
Any ideas or thoughts about this problem ?
Thanks in advance for your replies.
Regards,
Patrick Olinet
