On Tue, 2005-05-07 at 15:44 +1000, Stephen Crawley wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've submitted a two-line patch to the Jikes project on SourceForge
> that works around the problem which shown up when you use Jikes 1.22 to
> compile against a Classpath class tree.
>
> The symptom is that the compiler dies with an assertion error at
> line 1110 of "symbol.h" in the IsInner method. The workaround is to
> simply remove the assertion.
>
> I cannot vouch for the correctness of the patch ... but it works for me.
I don't know much of the quality of jikes code, but "just" removing
a failing assertion from SableVM has always proven to be a bad idea,
eventually.
> As a matter of interest, how does SableVM deal with this bug?
I don't think we've hit it. SableVM SDK 1.12 uses Jikes 1.22 plus
a little patch for deprecated method handling.
Grzegorz B. Prokopski
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