[Patch] java PR 12734

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Ralph" == Ralph Loader <suckfish@ihug.co.nz> writes:

Ralph> A patch that fixes PR 12734 and adds test cases is below.

Are you running tests against jacks at all?  Jacks should have tests
for most front-end things.  Generally, any front end bug fix will fix
one or more jacks failures.  It would be great if your fixes could
un-xfail the newly passing tests...

I can send info on setting up jacks if you need it.

Ralph> +/* Special casing access to array.length while analysing syntax is
Ralph> +   evil.  Especially when it means we can't cope with a type called
Ralph> +   length.  */

At one point I tried to get rid of the special cases.  This turned out
to be much more invasive than one might expect :-(.  Eventually I gave
up.

Tom