"Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
Andrew> I'd have made it WONTFIX. Sadly, however, there seems to be no rule
Andrew> in the specification that forbids final fields being rewritten in
Andrew> methods other than clinit.
In this case I don't think the fields are being rewritten -- they are
simply being initialized by a different function.
Andrew> This makes some optimizations harder. I think we need a flag to tell
Andrew> gcj that what we are compiling may not be Java code. Then we can do
Andrew> better optimizations when we know that it is.
Unfortunately I think final fields may be changed via reflection.