Re: FYI: Patch: java.awt.image.PixelGrabber

[Eric Blake]

How hard would it be to update the configure/Makefile.am to check that the 
compiler supports assert, and to enable any command-line option necessary to 
turn it on?  Jikes supports assert when the `-source 1.4' flag is used.

Speaking of which, I probably ought to see if I can push out a new version of 
jikes.  And if I do that, I can bump the default source version of jikes to 
support 1.4 out of the box, with prior source versions requiring the 
command-line option.  It has been more than a year since the last official 
release, and I have put in several bug fixes since then (although my coding 
time on jikes, and on classpath, has greatly diminished now that I have 
graduated from school).

Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> Mark> Lets keep asserts out of Classpath sources for now since by default not
> Mark> all compilers support it. But I do like to see them in the future if we
> Mark> can actually use them more then in one or two spots.
>
> Personally I'd like to see us push the envelope a little and allow
> `assert'.
>
> The lurking issue here is choosing a source language version.  For API
> coverage it is ok to do what we've been doing, namely not pick a
> version and let things float toward the latest release.  This doesn't
> work too well for the source version though.
>
> This is going to bite us big time when generics are introduced.
>
> Tom
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Eric Blake             address@hidden