------- Additional Comments From dan at bolser dot co dot uk 2004-12-18 19:12 ------- I also get the exact same behaviour using...
gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/share/gcc-4.0b/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.0/specs Configured with: ../gcc/configure --prefix=/usr/share/gcc-4.0b --enable-java-awt=gtk Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.0 20041217 (experimental) Trying to compile this code... public class testish { public static void main (String args[]){ Number pang = null; double pong = pang.doubleValue(); if (pong != null){ System.out.println("well..."); } } } /usr/share/gcc-4.0b/bin/gcj -C testish.java testish.java: In class 'testish': testish.java: In method 'testish.main(java.lang.String[])': testish.java:5: internal compiler error: in generate_bytecode_conditional, at java/jcf-write.c:1271 I guess this should compile, as not testing for the null causes a run time null pointer exception (as shown in comment #2) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19070