Re: JNI SIGSEGV on AMD64

From:
Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:47:43 +0100
Message-ID:
<eb9j3f$2a0$1@south.jnrs.ja.net>
rafael@enq.ufrgs.br wrote:

Hi All,

I have wrote an JNI interface for a C library. Everything works just
fine in 32bit machines/virtual machines.
Now I'm trying to reproduce the results with the amd64 Sun JVM (on an
amd64 machine). I recompiled the library on the target machine and got
no errors or warnings, but when I run the code I got the following:

#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00002aaafb10957e, pid=5819, tid=46912501787360
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (1.5.0_06-b05 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libumfpack.so.4+0x6257e] umfpack_di_free_symbolic+0x1e
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as
hs_err_pid5819.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#

Should I use special compilation flags for the amd64 version?
Any ideas?

Thank you in advance!


It's most likely that your C library is not 64bit clean.

Check your assumptions regarding the size of C variables, especially pointers,
they might well be wrong.

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