Re: frontend bug -- inner classes

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>]

Adam Megacz wrote:

>This should not compile, yet it does. Note that x is not static, yet
>main() is.
>
>public class t {
>    int x = 0;
>    public static void main() {
>        new Thread() {
>                public void run() {
>                    x = 5;
>                }
>            }.start();
>    }
>}
>
>javac gives this error:
>
>t.java:6: non-static variable x cannot be referenced from a static context
>                    x = 5;
>                    ^
>

I have a fix for this (check the java-patches archives) but it causes 
some other problems - specifically, anonymous classes should never be 
ACC_STATIC, even though we need to treat it as such when declared in a 
static context.

Sometime soon I'll take another look at it.

regards

Bryce.