Mistake in API comparison?

Jerry Quinn jlquinn@optonline.net
Wed May 21 05:22:00 GMT 2003


Michael Koch writes:
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 > Am Mittwoch, 30. April 2003 07:14 schrieb Jerry Quinn:
 > > I was looking at the API comparison between jdk1.4 and gcj and
 > > found a possible problem with the api comparing tools.
 > >
 > > On the comparison page, it shows 5 functions in
 > > java.awt.geom.AffineTransform being bad:

[snip]

 > > However, according to the on-line docs for java 1.4.1, none of
 > > these functions is listed as throwing any of these exceptions.
 > 
 > Yes, this is a bug in japitools or the jdk14.japi.gz (or both). 
 > Unfortunately the author has not the time to fix his bugs. I already 
 > tried to find the bug but failed.
 > 
 > Michael

I checked against japitools 0.9.3 and get the correct output so
apparently the bug has been fixed in the source.  Can I persuade
whoever runs the comparisons to switch? :-)

Later,
Jerry Quinn



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