Jikes v0.37 now available

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v0.37 of the IBM Research Jikes Compiler is now available from
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/formula/jikes.

CLASSPATH confusion

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Sinz writes:

CLASSPATH, as it is currently implemented by various JVMs, JDKs, and
browsers is, IMHO, one of the most confusing, broken, and expensive
problems in Java (expensive in the cost of support and the like)

I couldn't agree more. It's the most frequent source of confusion to users
of the Jikes compiler.

dave
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.ibm.com/research/jikes

Re: CLASSPATH confusion

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Having it "fixed" in 1.2 won't help us, as Jikes is designed to run with
all but most ancient JDK's. You supply the classes.zip (or jar, or
whatever), we provide the bytecode. Sigh.

dave
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.ibm.com/research/jikes

Re: How to Write MakeFile ?

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Jikes supports the +M option for use in generating Makefiles.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.ibm.com/research/jikes

Re: bison/java ?

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The Jikes Parser Generator, available in binary form form
alphaworks.ibm.com/formula/jikespg, handles all conventional grammar forms
and can generate output in Java, suitable for use with a parser written in
Java. We are working on makeing it Open Source. We know  more (there is
none now!) documentation is needed, but we do believe it to be comparable
to bison, yacc, and javacc -- if not better.

dave

[EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.ibm.com/research/jikes

Re: jdk1.1.6: jdb buggy?

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You  might want to try the Jikes debugger, available from
www.alphaworks.ibm.com.

dave

Re: IBM Releases Java compiler for Linux

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We're working on a libc5 version. We knew some people would want it, but we
didn't want to delay posting Jikes for Linux until we had it.

dave
Jikes co-author

Re: GUI debugger for Java-Linux?

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Try the Jikes debugger, http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com
dave

Re: Survey: does this crash your compiler?

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NO!

dave and philippe
Jikes co-authors


[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/21/98 09:35:37 PM

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: David Shields/Watson/IBM)
Subject:  Survey: does this crash your compiler?






Hi,

I've found the miracle handful of lines of code that crash two out of
three compilers I could find *grin*

The contestants:
javac (Blackdown JDK1.1.6v2 on Linux)
javac (Sun JDK1.1.5 on NT)
jikes (on Linux)
sj (the Symantec compiler on WinNT)

The sole survivor:
jikes

Hehehehe :)
dstn.

Caution: compiler death below this line
---

import java.awt.*;

public class DieNow {
public DieNow () {
Panel death = new Panel (null){
public Insets getInsets () {
return new Insets (6,6,6,6);
}
};
}
}


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Dustin Lang, [EMAIL PROTECTED]