Sockets in 0.07 might be broken on some non-intel arches

[Grzegorz B. Prokopski]

Hi!

It really intrigued me when Mark said that Sockets work for him with
development [1] version of SableVM (which uses latest GNU Classpath).

After doing some tests and many compilations I figured out that the
error doesn't show up on my Intel machine but does on Sparc:

address@hidden:~/sablebot$ ../usr/bin/sablevm -Y sb
java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument
   at gnu.java.net.PlainSocketImpl.getOption (PlainSocketImpl.java)
   at gnu.java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect (PlainSocketImpl.java:216)
   at java.net.Socket.connect (Socket.java:402)
   at java.net.Socket.connect (Socket.java:366)
   at java.net.Socket.Socket (Socket.java:292)
   at java.net.Socket.Socket (Socket.java:149)
   at sb.main (sb.java:9)
   at java.lang.VirtualMachine.invokeMain (VirtualMachine.java)
   at java.lang.VirtualMachine.main (VirtualMachine.java:88)

The code of sb.java is simply this:

import java.net.*;
public class sb
{
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
   {
      java.net.Socket socket = new java.net.Socket("irc.sablevm.org",
6667);
      System.out.println(socket);
   }
}

I have no time now to track it further. I belive that it's probably
a problem in Classpath but Cc:ing SableVM-devel just in case.

HTH

                                Grzegorz B. Prokopski

[1] http://devel.sablevm.org

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