Re: Build failure with the 0.98 merge

["Andrew John Hughes" <gnu_andrew at member dot fsf dot org>]

2008/8/21 Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm getting a build error when trying to compile the version of GCJ
>> merged with Classpath 0.98:
>
> Is this when building gcc itself, or a local merge, i.e. can I look
> at this for myself?
>

Sorry, should have been clearer; this is the current state of
branches/gcj/classpath-098-merge-branch, so
yes you can take a look :)

>> In file included from
>> /home/andrew/projects/classpath/gcj/sources/gcc/libjava/interpret.cc:25:
>> /home/andrew/projects/classpath/gcj/sources/gcc/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.h:97:
>> error: 'java::lang::AbstractStringBuffer*
>> java::lang::StringBuffer::StringBuffer$append(jchar)' cannot be
>> overloaded
>> /home/andrew/projects/classpath/gcj/sources/gcc/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.h:38:
>> error: with 'virtual java::lang::StringBuffer*
>> java::lang::StringBuffer::StringBuffer$append(jchar)'
>> /home/andrew/projects/classpath/gcj/sources/gcc/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.h:100:
>> error: 'java::lang::AbstractStringBuffer*
>> java::lang::StringBuffer::StringBuffer$append(java::lang::CharSequence*,
>> jint, jint)' cannot be overloaded
>> /home/andrew/projects/classpath/gcj/sources/gcc/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.h:36:
>> error: with 'java::lang::StringBuffer*
>> java::lang::StringBuffer::StringBuffer$append(java::lang::CharSequence*,
>> jint, jint)'
>> /home/andrew/projects/classpath/gcj/sources/gcc/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.h:102:
>> error: 'java::lang::AbstractStringBuffer*
>> java::lang::StringBuffer::StringBuffer$append(java::lang::CharSequence*)'
>> cannot be overloaded
>> /home/andrew/projects/classpath/gcj/sources/gcc/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.h:35:
>> error: with 'java::lang::StringBuffer*
>> java::lang::StringBuffer::StringBuffer$append(java::lang::CharSequence*)'
>> make[3]: *** [interpret.lo] Error 1
>>
>> Is there an issue with gcj and the use of covariant return types from 1.5?
>>
>> The methods in question are StringBuffer.append(char),
>> StringBuffer.append(CharSequence,int,int) and
>> StringBuffer.append(CharSequence). All return a StirngBuffer and
>> override methods with the same signature but a return type of
>> AbstractStringBuffer in AbstractStringBuffer.
>>
>> Cheers,
>
>



-- 
Andrew :-)

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