Re: Another Classpath / Kissme incompatibility

[Brian Jones]

Casey Marshall <address@hidden> writes:

> > Without this change, I found that the static FileDescriptor fields
> > had value null; i.e. they were being clobbered after nativeInit9)
> > had set them.  I didn't look at the bytecodes, but my guess is
> > that Jikes is emitting an opcode to initialize the fields, even
> > though this may be notionally unnecessary.
> >
> 
> That was because the null-initializations came after the static
> intitializer -- java compilers (as per the JLS) should combine
> static intitializations and the explicit static intitializer into a
> single static code block, in the order they appear in the file.
> 
> See:
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/execution.doc.html#44630
> (step 8).

If there is a Jikes bug in here somewhere could one of you get it to
the Jikes developer's bug system?

Brian
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Brian Jones <address@hidden>