Interesting results...

Archie Cobbs archie at dellroad.org
Thu Mar 21 13:26:55 PST 2002


Stuart Ballard writes:
> > As far as I can see Jikes 1.13 is the one that works.  The
> > alternative is to actually find the bug, probably somewhere
> > in the verifier.  I tried running with ElectriFence and it
> > made no difference, so I don't think it's a malloc bug.
> 
> No, the bug is in jikes. Jikes 1.15 is completely broken, jikes 1.15b
> fixes some of the errors but leaves in at least one major one:
> VerifyErrors on any constructor of a non-static inner class that is
> either non-public or calls this(). I've also heard bad things about
> jikes 1.14, but didn't hit any of those personally.
> 
> I recommend requiring specifically jikes 1.13 until 1.16 comes out.

FYI,

I just checked in a rebuild Klasses.jar built with jikes v.1.13.

-Archie

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