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RE: Can OpenJDK's compiler replace ECJ for GCJ?
- From: "Jeroen Frijters" <jeroen at sumatra dot nl>
- To: "Andrew Haley" <aph at redhat dot com>, "Tom Tromey" <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Doug Nicholson" <doug at mathechyst dot com>, <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:37:45 +0100
- Subject: RE: Can OpenJDK's compiler replace ECJ for GCJ?
Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Andrew> Well, yeah. That's because the class file version
> ID has been bumped.
> >
> > Interesting. Do we know what changes prompted this?
>
> Not really, no.
The addition of the StackMapTable attribute. That's the only class
format change in 1.6. According to the spec a JVM verifier is required
to use the StackMapTable, but if that fails verification it is allowed
(but not required) to do a classic verification.
Regards,
Jeroen