BigInteger compile fails

[Matt Welsh]

Just to follow up on this - everything seems to work fine with the 
latest egcs from CVS. 

Cheers -
Matt Welsh

Warren Levy <warrenl@cygnus.com> writes:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Matt Welsh wrote:
> 
> > > Either the latest egcs, or 2.95.2 with Bryce's compatibility patch.
> > 
> > I was using Bryce's patch. There must be something else wrong with 2.95.2
> > then?
> 
> There's an easy workaround in the BigInteger source code.  If you can't find 
> the right compiler fix, go ahead and apply this in the meantime.
> --warrenl
> 
> 
> --- BigInteger.java	Mon Feb 14 02:01:31 2000
> +++ BigInteger.java.workaround	Tue Feb 15 15:29:14 2000
> @@ -279,7 +279,10 @@ public class BigInteger extends Number i
>  
>    private final boolean isNegative()
>    {
> -    return (words == null ? ival : words[ival - 1]) < 0;
> +    // FIXME: compiler error in egcs-19991214 when compiling to bytecode (on
> ly).
> +    // return (words == null ? ival : words[ival - 1]) < 0;
> +    int tmp = (words == null ? ival : words[ival - 1]);
> +    return tmp < 0;
>    }
>  
>    public int signum()