Jitter 3.1 available for PowerMac (MacOS and Linux)

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Tue Nov 14 21:11:06 UTC 2000


Ian,

This problem has been noted on the list as well, so I am forwarding your reply to the list.

Cheers,
Bob

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 03:32:24 +0100 (MET) Ian Piumarta <Ian.Piumarta at inria.fr> wrote:
>There is a bizarre problem with 8.6.  The VM starts up, runs
>a while, then runs out of *object memory* (giving the "out of
>memory" error -- which is from interp.c, not from J3 code).
>
>This problem exists for the "vanilla" bytecode VM also, when
>compiled under MPW with gcc.
>
>We've been investigating possible causes of this, but so far
>have found nothing that can explain the behaviour.  Upgrading
>an 8.6 machine to the latest runtime libraries didn't help.
>The worst possible scenario would be a bug in libgcc (although
>I don't think this is the case: I managed to make a working
>2.6 VM under MPW/gcc back in France).
>
>We'll let you know the instant that this problem is resolved.





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