Brian Jones wrote:
I have just recently changed the behavior of -source and -target in the CVS version of jikes (post 1.18). Before, if you set -target, you could not parse assert. But now, -source and -target are sufficiently independent. With the addition of the new command-line option --noassert, you may compile code with assert statements while still emitting code workarounds necessary for running on 1.1 JVMs.I didn't set the source option. It is just a HelloWorld program, really, so it doesn't use assertions ;) Should I try setting the source too, i.e. does source default to 1.4 ? My guess would be that it's easy to compile 1.1 source for a 1.4 target, but not the other way around, so that might explain the problem I'm seeing. I'll check and post a reply tonight.Setting the source option to 1.2 solved my problem.I think Classpath sets the -target in lib/Makefile.am for jikes compiles to 1.1 without setting the -source option. Should something be changed then? The point was mainly to make emitted class files useful to 1.1+ JVMs.
For now, jikes 1.18 and CVS jikes default to -source 1.3 and -target 1.3 if neither is specified, to be drop-in compatible with the behavior of javac in JDK 1.4.1_01.
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