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Re: [Patch] java PR 12734

From: Ralph Loader <suckfish at ihug dot co dot nz>
To: tromey at redhat dot com
Cc: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:12:10 +1200
Subject: Re: [Patch] java PR 12734
References: <1064952787.13456.239.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87fzie3r7h.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

> I can send info on setting up jacks if you need it.

Are the instructions at
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/cvs/jikes/~checkout~/jacks/jacks.html
good enough?  If not, more info appreciated.

> 
> Ralph> +/* Special casing access to array.length while analysing syntax is
> Ralph> +   evil.  Especially when it means we can't cope with a type called
> Ralph> +   length.  */
> 
> At one point I tried to get rid of the special cases.  This turned out
> to be much more invasive than one might expect :-(.  Eventually I gave
> up.

I had a similar experience fixing that pr12734 - tried to write a
version of the function that did something sane, found it didn't work so
instead trimmed things out incrementally.

Ralph.


> 
> Tom
>

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