[committed] allow assert in inner class

[Andrew Pinski]

On Feb 26, 2004, at 02:14, Andrew Haley wrote:

> Per Bothner writes:
>> If you use assert, the compiler generates some code
>> that includes doing THIS_CLASS.class, which in turn
>> is implemented by a static helper method named class$.
>> If THIS_CLASS was an inner class, the compiler would
>> lose because static methods aren't allowed in inner classes.
>> The solution (which matches JDK) is to move the class$
>> helper method to the outer class.
>>
>> Tested on Fedora and checked into mainline.
>
> Thanks.  3.4 too?  Or is this not sufficiently important?


Also please close bugs which are fixed by this patch, it looks like 
PR13508
is fixed by this patch.


Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
gcc bug master