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Re: GCC 4.0 RC1 Available
Per Bothner writes:
> Per Bothner wrote:
> > However, the Kawa testsuite fails, raising a ClassNotFoundException.
> > I'm looking into it.
>
> Hm. This fails, with or without the patch:
> clas = Class.forName(cname);
> This works:
> clas = Class.forName(cname, true, getClass().getClassLoader());
Okay, a stack trace failure. And a new one, despite the fact that the
release branch still has the unchanged old stack trace machinery.
> This is with make all && make install in the libjav directory.
> I'm doing a 'cvs update' and rebuild from a clean tree in case the
> problem is an artifact of the way I just rebuilt part of the tree.
>
> BTW, I've always though we should have the compiler rewrite:
> Class.forName(NAME)
> to:
> Class.forName(NAME, true, getClass().getClassLoader())
> to avoid the fragility and ugliness and performance lossage
> of doing the stack trace ...
I started to do this, but there are quite a few places that need it:
it's not just Class.forName().
Andrew.