gcj/253: problems with instanceof when compilation from .classfiles

[Gregory R. Warnes]

The following reply was made to PR gcj/253; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Gregory R. Warnes" <warnes@biostat.washington.edu>
To: apbianco@redhat.com
Cc: java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gcj/253: problems with instanceof when compilation from .class
 files
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:45:42 -0700 (PDT)

 Based on things posted on the list some time ago I understood that the
 source parser didn't handle inner classes, static array intializing, and a
 couple of other java features, but that the class file parser handled
 these just fine.  Am I mistaken?
 
 On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Alexandre Petit-Bianco wrote:
 
   AP>> 
   AP>> warnes@biostat.washington.edu writes:
   AP>> 
   AP>> > The workaround appears to be to compile from the .java files rather
   AP>> > than from the .class files.  Unfortunately, my application makes use
   AP>> > of inner classes, so I can't just use gcj with the raw .java files,
   AP>> > so the work around is rather painful.
   AP>> 
   AP>> I don't understand what you're saying. What makes it a problem for you
   AP>> to compile from sources instead of from classes?
   AP>> 
   AP>> ./A
   AP>>