[forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/225438]

checked with 3.3 branch and 20031229 HEAD.

the compilation of 
 
G.java: 
import q.*; 
abstract class G extends F { 
    public String toString() { 
        return String.valueOf(bla()); 
    } 
} 
q/F.java: 
package q; 
import p.*; 
public abstract class F implements E { 
} 
 
p/E.java: 
package p; 
public interface E { 
    int bla(); 
} 
 
fails with the error message: 
 
G.java: In class `G': 
G.java: In method `G.toString()': 
G.java:4: error: No method named `bla' in scope. 
        return String.valueOf(bla()); 
                                 ^ 
1 error 
 
It works with jikes, though. As jikes is advertized to be very 
standard-compliant and as common sense says, this should work (because 
the class is abstract, it does not have to implement all methods, but in 
non-abstract subclasses they have to exist), this may be an error of 
gcj-3.3