Re: Jikes RVM & mauve tests

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

Eric> I stand by the Classpath version of Character.  I updated it to
Eric> correctly obey the same Unicode version as JDK 1.4, and verified
Eric> everything against the JDK.  However, I never found the time to go and
Eric> fix Mauve to do the same.  So the Mauve tests for Character are
Eric> currently broken.

Yeah.  They were always a little bogus, I'm afraid.  Back when they
were written the Character documentation was notably less clear...

Eric> Back in Feb 02 or so, I posted a patch to gcj to "merge" as much of
Eric> Character and String as possible between Classpath and libgcj, but it
Eric> was never applied (back in the 3.1 days), so I would practically have
Eric> to start the merge again to catch everything that has happened in both
Eric> trees in the meantime.

First, I'm completely responsible for the String merge not going
forward.  I'm really sorry about that.  Second, I thought the
Character changes did go in?

Tom