Interesting, I never saw this, even though I used jikes (1.15).
However, I do get this warning below. It is just a warning, but...
compile:
[javac] Compiling 29 source files to
/home/otis/cvs-repositories/jakarta/jakarta-commons/httpclient/target/classes
[javac]
[javac] Issued 1 semantic warning compiling
"/home/otis/cvs-repositories/jakarta/jakarta-commons/httpclient/src/java/org/apache/commons/httpclient/log/SimpleLog.java":
[javac]
[javac] 103. } catch(Throwable t) {
[javac] <--------->
[javac] *** Caution: This try block cannot throw a "checked exception" (JLS
section 14.7) that can be caught here. You may have intended to catch a
RuntimeException instead of an Exception.
[copy] Copying 3 files to
/home/otis/cvs-repositories/jakarta/jakarta-commons/httpclient/target/classes
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Otis
On Fri, 04 January 2002, Jeff Turner wrote:
>
> There seems to be a bug in 'javac', which lets you implicitly typecast a char
> to a byte. Eg:
>
> public class Test {
> public static void main(String args[]) {
> byte b = 'a';
> }
>
> 'javac Test.java' compiles fine. That's from the Blackdown 1.3.0 JDK.
>
> 'jikes Test.java' reports:
>
> Found 1 semantic error compiling "Test.java":
>
> 3. byte b = 'a';
> <->
> *** Error: A byte value must be an integer value (note that a character literal is
>not an integer value) in the range -128..127.
>
>
> Which makes perfect sense, since a char is 16 bits, and a byte is 8 bits. This
> is relevant to httpclient, which would not compile with jikes:
>
> [javac] Found 22 semantic errors compiling
>"/home/jeff/apache/jakarta/jakarta-commons/httpclient/src/java/org/apache/commons/httpclient/URIUtil.java":
>
> [javac]
> [javac] 703. case '0':
> [javac] <->
> ....
>
>
> I fixed httpclient with a typecast (email waiting in a moderator's queue
> presumably), but I thought I'd raise awareness of the issue here, and take the
> opportunity to do a bit of jikes advocacy ;)
>
>
> --Jeff
>
>
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