Re: Compiling with jikes > 1.13

[Stuart Ballard]

Mark Wielaard wrote:

> 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?

The problems I encountered were in a program written by myself, which as 
yet I haven't had time to bundle up and release as Free Software, nor to 
chase up official permission to do so (although the people In Charge 
have unofficially told me it will be no problem).

Since I rely on this program for my day job, I just put jikes on hold as 
soon as I discovered that that definitely fixed the problems. I have 
planned on sending the jikes developers a bug report as soon as I could 
come up with a simplified testcase, but never found the time to do so.

My code does use numerous inner classes, so it's possible that the 
errors I saw were related to the bugs that Eric mentioned as being 
known. The problems were definitely errors in *running* code that 
actually compiled with no errors or warnings, which fits Eric's 
description, although I forget exactly what happened when I tried to run 
it (VerifyError or VM coredump).

Finding a reduced testcase or arranging to release my code so that the 
problem can be seen in publically-known code is still on my todo list, 
but unfortunately not as high a priority as I would like it to be. Too 
many todos, too little time todo them.

Stuart.