ART runtime fails to work on android 4.4 kitkat

[Chris]

ART runtime fails to initialize on the galaxy nexus android 4.4 kitkat if it is built using the arm-linux-androideabi-4.8-linaro toolchain on galaxy nexus even with standard aosp cflags, when ART runtime works just fine with the same cflags with the aosp arm-linux-androideabi-4.7 toolchain

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (berolinux)]

Confirmed -- I've run into this as well when doing the port (but didn't have the time to isolate the problem yet).
Can you try with the arm-linux-androideabi-4.7-linaro toolchain and with stock gcc 4.8.2 to help narrow down what's breaking it?

[Chris (cgibson16137)]

ART also fails with the stock aosp arm-linux-androideabi 4.8 toolchain but seems to work just fine with the arm-linux-androideabi-4.7-linaro toolchain

If it helps any the logcat on the builds using the stock aosp or linaro 4.8 toolchains always comes up with
E/art ( 700): /system/bin/dex2oat failed: /system/bin/dex2oat --image=/cache/dalvik-cache/system@<email address hidden>@classes.dex --runtime-arg -Xms64m --runtime-arg -Xmx64m --dex-file=/system/framework/core-libart.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/conscrypt.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/okhttp.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/core-junit.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/bouncycastle.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/ext.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/framework.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/framework2.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/telephony-common.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/voip-common.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/mms-common.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/android.policy.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/services.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/apache-xml.jar --dex-file=/system/framework/webviewchromium.jar --oat-file=/cache/dalvik-cache/system@<email address hidden>@classes.oat --base=0x60000000 --image-classes-zip=/system/framework/framework.jar --image-classes=preloaded-classes
F/art ( 700): art/runtime/gc/space/image_space.cc:148] Check failed: GenerateImage(image_file_name) Failed to generate image: /cache/dalvik-cache/system@<email address hidden>@classes.dex

[Chris (cgibson16137)]

resolved with-
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/art/+/e47637cc7c96e654d2c340e6006c232c8078673b