Re: PR java/19907: Incorrect code generated for ManifestElement.java

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > 
 > >This testcase first allocates a local slot as a boolean and then tries
 > >to re-use the same slot as an integer.  The confusion is casued by the
 > >fact that in the Java VM, stack slots for booleans and integers have
 > >the same type.  So, when an operation returns a boolean, we should
 > >store it in a local of int type.  This only applies to the bytecode
 > >compiler.
 > >
 > >This patch changes local variable allocation so that temporaries for
 > >values of type boolean are always stored in slots of type int.
 > >
 > >Andrew.
 > >
 > >
 > >2005-02-11  Andrew Haley  <aph@redhat.com>
 > >
 > >	PR java/19907
 > >	* decl.c (find_local_variable): Promote all boolean types to int
 > >	when searching for local variable decls.
 > >  
 > >
 > 
 > Cool, thanks for fixing this. This was actually already filed as PR 
 > 19834, but not to worry.

I searched with every keyword I could think of, but failed!  Anyway,
my patch doesn't fix the general case, so I'm doing something better.

Andrew.