What happens if you add --ll-exception to the command line?
> On 18 Oct 2016, at 05:42, Felipe Valdes (via RT)
> <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
>
> # New Ticket Created by Felipe Valdes
> # Please include the string: [perl #129909]
> # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
> # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129909 >
>
>
> I want my clients to be able to run jar files
> generated by the perl6 command:
>
> The program:
>
> my $num = (1..100).pick;
>
> my $guess_count = 0;
>
>
> loop {
>
> my $guess = prompt("guess");
>
> if $guess == $num {
>
> say "Well done";
>
> last;
>
> }
>
> if $guess > $num {
>
> say "Lower";
>
> }
>
> if $guess < $num {
>
> say "Higher";
>
> }
>
> if $guess_count == 7 {
>
> say "you suck!";
>
> last;
>
> }
>
> $guess_count++;
>
> }
>
>
> the compilation command:
>
> perl6 --target=jvm --output=guess.jar guess.p6
>
>
> the result:
>
> ===SORRY!===
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>
>
> The version:
>
> This is Rakudo version 2016.10-9-g906719c built on JVM
>
> implementing Perl 6.c.
>
>
> I think the error message is less than awesome.
>
>
> Felipes-MacBook-Pro:backend2 a$ perl6 --stagestats --target=jvm
> --output=guess.jar guess.p6
>
> Stage start : 0.000
>
> Stage parse : 3.405
>
> Stage syntaxcheck: 0.001
>
> Stage ast : 0.001
>
> Stage optimize : 0.140
>
> Stage jast : 0.395
>
> Stage classfile : 0.081
>
> Stage jar : 0.000
>
> Stage jvm : 0.006
>
> ===SORRY!===
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>
> Felipes-MacBook-Pro:backend2 a$
