Running Eclipse 3

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:

Mark> I tried on the trunk. I couldn't get xalan to be on the bootclasspath as
Mark> byte code (not even with java.ext.dirs, so we probably do something
Mark> wrong there)

We talked about this on irc, but let me ask again: please file this in
bugzilla.  When I have unscheduled time I look through bugzilla to see
what to fix.  Bugs that aren't there, I just forget about.  Sometimes
if we get a critical mass of bugs in one area (say, the bootstrap
class loader), that will push this set nearer the top of the list...

Mark> java.lang.VerifyError: verification failed at PC 9 in org.eclipse.ui.internal.PerspectiveBarNewContributionItem:<init>((Lorg.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchWindow;)V): uninitialized object in local variable
Mark> So you probably need to disable the verifier on the trunk.

IMO this is an Eclipse compiler bug.  My analysis is here:

    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77219

Jeff Sturm actually reported this to the gcc bugzilla a while back,
but I forgot about it.

Maybe the Eclipse compiler guys will have a different opinion, we'll
see.  The bug is a bit arguable in that at least one paper on
verification claims that this check is not actually needed for type
safety.

Tom