Re: javac 1.2 a real pig

1999-03-13 Thread Volker Augustin
I am only using jikes since it appeared. I have not had any problems with it. There are however both a stable version (currently 0.42) and a developer version (v0.47) which you might want to try. They fixed a few JDK1.2 bugs recently. The developer version is available from http://www.ibm.co

Re: javac 1.2 a real pig

1999-03-12 Thread Nelson Minar
>The problem is that the jikes compiled code does not pass the >bytecode verify stage. If you run the same code under JDK 1.1 and it >works then you know for sure that that is the problem. Well, not exactly. You might also want to try runnign it with JDK 1.2 without verification. "oldjava" does t

Re: javac 1.2 a real pig

1999-03-12 Thread Moses DeJong
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Steve Cohen wrote: > Hani Suleiman wrote: > > > I use jikes with jdk1.2, the only snag is that you have to explicitly > > include rt.jar in your classpath. Also it will compile code that would not > > be passed by 1.2 javac. Sorry no specific code to demostrate this (and it

Re: javac 1.2 a real pig

1999-03-12 Thread Moses DeJong
I too have had some problem with jikes generated code with JDK 1.2. I think the problem is being worked on but perhaps more messages like "I can not run jikes compiled code under 1.2" will help get the bugs fixed. Joining the jikes mailing list is also a good way to keep up to date with jikes chan

Re: javac 1.2 a real pig

1999-03-12 Thread zun
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Steve Cohen wrote: > I had previously thought the errors I was getting on execution were the > result of using jikes. But apparently not so. Once javac finished its > compilation, an identical exception occurred on executing the compiled > application: > > [scohen@stevecoh

Re: javac 1.2 a real pig

1999-03-12 Thread Steve Cohen
Hani Suleiman wrote: > I use jikes with jdk1.2, the only snag is that you have to explicitly > include rt.jar in your classpath. Also it will compile code that would not > be passed by 1.2 javac. Sorry no specific code to demostrate this (and it > would be long on the jikes mailing list anyways!)

Re: javac 1.2 a real pig

1999-03-12 Thread Geoffrey T. Cheshire
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Steve Cohen wrote: > Is a 1.2-compatible jikes available yet? The jikes I used for 1.1.7 Yes. -- Geoffrey T. Cheshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: javac 1.2 a real pig

1999-03-12 Thread Hani Suleiman
I use jikes with jdk1.2, the only snag is that you have to explicitly include rt.jar in your classpath. Also it will compile code that would not be passed by 1.2 javac. Sorry no specific code to demostrate this (and it would be long on the jikes mailing list anyways!), but it had to do with me