java/1309: Cannot refer to inner static class

[osk@hem.passagen.se]

>Number:         1309
>Category:       java
>Synopsis:       Cannot refer to inner static class
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apbianco
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 20 12:18:53 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Tue Aug 15 21:27:43 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Tue Aug 15 21:30:00 PDT 2000
>Originator:     osk@hem.passagen.se
>Release:        unknown-1.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
egcs 2000-07-17
libgcj 2000-07-18
>Description:
(This might be old, but I couldn't find any matching PRs.)
Compiling the following code

  class Outer {
    public static class InnerStatic { }
  }
  class Test {
    public void method() {
      Outer.InnerStatic[] i;
    }
  }

with gcj snapshot 20000717 gives this error:

  $ gcj -C Test.java
  Test.java:7: Type `Outer.InnerStatic' not found in the declaration of
  the local variable `i'.
                Outer.InnerStatic[] i;
                ^
  1 error

while jikes compiles it just fine.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:

Formerly PR gcj/288


From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: osk@hem.passagen.se
Cc: java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gcj/288: Cannot refer to inner static class
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:07:07 +0200

 Hi,
 
 Note that as a workaround you can write Outer$InnerStatic.
 
 Mark

From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: osk@hem.passagen.se
Cc: java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com, "a. pbianco" <apbianco@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: gcj/288: Cannot refer to inner static class
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 05:20:02 -0700 (PDT)

 Alex, this is the primary bug I'm seeing with my AWT patch.
 Tom

From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
To: osk@hem.passagen.se, java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gcj/288: Cannot refer to inner static class
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:49:03 +1200

 osk@hem.passagen.se wrote:
 
 >   $ gcj -C Test.java
 >   Test.java:7: Type `Outer.InnerStatic' not found in the declaration of
 >   the local variable `i'.
 >                 Outer.InnerStatic[] i;
 >                 ^
 >   1 error
 
 Yeah, this is basically the same as gcj/257.
 
 Any type resolution that goes through resolve_type_during_patch() doesn't
 seem to be working with inner classes. These are array type declarations,
 casts, dot-class expressions, and instanceof expressions.
 
 Note that in this case your example should be legal even if
 Outer.InnerStatic wasn't static (but not if it is private).
 
 regards
 
   [ bryce ]
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: bryce
State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 15 21:27:43 2000
State-Changed-Why:
    This was fixed along with PR 256/257. It works fine for me now.

From: bryce@albatross.co.nz
To: apbianco@cygnus.com, java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com, osk@hem.passagen.se
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gcj/288
Date: 16 Aug 2000 04:27:43 -0000

 Synopsis: Cannot refer to inner static class
 
 State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 State-Changed-By: bryce
 State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 15 21:27:43 2000
 State-Changed-Why:
     This was fixed along with PR 256/257. It works fine for me now.
 
 http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=288&database=java
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