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Re: SimpleDateFormat
- From: "Andrew John Hughes" <gnu_andrew at member dot fsf dot org>
- To: "Andrew Haley" <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: decuplo at yahoo dot com, "Ben Gardiner" <BenGardiner at nanometrics dot ca>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:09:27 +0100
- Subject: Re: SimpleDateFormat
- References: <600341.3608.qm@web56915.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <485A665A.2070100@redhat.com>
2008/6/19 Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>:
> - - wrote:
>>> AFAIK it only happens if you link statically with libgcj.
>>
>> But also with gcj version 3.4.5 is statically linked. Why with that compiler
>> release the problem didn't happens.
>
> It's a much older version of the library, which probably wasn't properly
> resourceified. In other words, the bug with resources was there, but the
> library didn't use those resources anyway.
>
> Andrew.
>
IIRC, GCJ 4.3 switched to using Classpath's locale resources which are contained
in property files rather than the previous GCJ-specific solution
(which I think was class-based).
So, yes, this would explain the issue arising there and not with 3.4.5.
--
Andrew :-)
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