Re: Compiling with jikes > 1.13

[Eric Blake]

I'm one of the jikes developers.  I know that Jikes 1.15 has some
problems compiling inner classes with private constructors, (jikes
compiles with exit status 0, but execution of the resulting .class file
causes a VerifyError), and there are a few of those in Classpath.  I'm
not sure if the Debian release applied any patches to the stock 1.15
install.  But the CVS version of jikes is looking better.  Jikes 1.16 is
being held up by a few more bugs; I have some partial patches in my
source tree, but have not had the time to get them all in (school has
hit me pretty heavily this semester).  I plan to spend more time on
jikes during the Olympics, when I have time off school.  My plans for
1.16 involve flawless compilation of inner classes, and I'm getting
closer.

I haven't tried compiling Classpath with the latest CVS, so I'm not sure
if it solves all the VerifyErrors of 1.15.  If you would like, I can see
about adding a tag to CVS on a stable version of jikes (possibly
reverting one or two unstable patches), to coordinate with a release of
Classpath, then provide instructions for obtaining this interim version
of jikes.

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Chris Gray wrote:
> > With Wonka we've had problems with every version after 1.12.1 (!).
> > "Problems" includes: dumps core on valid input, outputs illegal
> > bytecode
> 
> Stuart Ballard wrote:
> > FWIW, I had to put jikes in debian/unstable on hold at 1.14-0.4 because
> > it started doing nasty things to my own application. But I haven't tried
> > compiling classpath with it, so it may work for that purpose.
> 
> Etienne M. Gagnon wrote:
> > Hmmm... I experienced problems compiling Classpath with jikes 1.14.  These
> > problem went away when I installed jikes 1.15 on my Debian/sid system...
> 
> John Leuner wrote:
> > There were issues (don't remember exactly what), but I've been using
> > the jikes 1.15 in debian/unstable and it seems to work fine. (I have
> > compiled all of classpath with it)
> 
> OK. So it seems that we can recommend jikes 1.15 for compiling Classpath
> but it may have some problems for other applications. I will put that in
> the HACKING and INSTALL notices.
> 
> Have people with jikes problems actaully reported them to the jikes
> developers? We can try to recompile Wonka with 1.15 to see what happens.
> Stuart, what program were you using which forced you to downgrade to
> 1.14?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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