On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Paul Kinnucan wrote:
> At 07:54 AM 12/14/99 -0500, Brad Giaccio wrote:
> >On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 12:51:49AM -0100, Paul Kinnucan wrote:
> >> * Recompiled the debugger, using javac. Previous versions were compiled
> >> with jikes. The jikes
> >> version results in a mysterious null pointer exception when stepping
> >> through code.
> >
> >Paul,
> >What version of jikes are you running. I noticed it with one of
> >the versions released this summer, but one of the subsequent releases of
> >jikes fixed it. My null pointer was reallyy neat the line was:
> >if (a == null) If I dind't spend more time scratching my head on that one.
> >
>
> I've been using 1.09, which was released in October, 1999.
>
> - Paul
>
I've been having seom strange problems with Jikes too - IE failes with
some applets, and IBM's JAX has a few problems with Jikes class files.
The fix for me was to revert back to jikes 0.42. I never got a repeatable
way of producing the problem, so couldn't submit a very helpful bug
report.
barney
Barney Dalton
Twist my arm http://telerobot.mech.uwa.edu.au
