Re: Compiling with jikes > 1.13

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 20:41, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> But I have attached the results so far.
> I will go through the VerifyErrors I get now to see if they are real.

Reading bytecode makes your head hurt.

> java.lang.VerifyError: verification failed at PC 82 in 
> java.net.URLDecoder:decode((Ljava.lang.String;Ljava.lang.String;)Ljava.lang.String;):
>  array type expected

This seems to be a bug in the verifier. When you see arraylength the
stack may contain null. But isarray() in verifier.cc does not check for
null for some reason.

Now I am debugging the verifier when I wanted to debug jikes bytecode
generation :)

Cheers,

Mark