BigInteger compile fails

Sat Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2000

Just to follow up on this - everything seems to work fine with the 
latest egcs from CVS. 
Cheers -
Matt Welsh
Warren Levy <warrenl@cygnus.com> writes:
> On 2000年2月14日, Matt Welsh wrote:
>> > > Either the latest egcs, or 2.95.2 with Bryce's compatibility patch.
> > 
> > I was using Bryce's patch. There must be something else wrong with 2.95.2
> > then?
>> There's an easy workaround in the BigInteger source code. If you can't find 
> the right compiler fix, go ahead and apply this in the meantime.
> --warrenl
>>> --- BigInteger.java	Mon Feb 14 02:01:31 2000
> +++ BigInteger.java.workaround	Tue Feb 15 15:29:14 2000
> @@ -279,7 +279,10 @@ public class BigInteger extends Number i
>> private final boolean isNegative()
> {
> - return (words == null ? ival : words[ival - 1]) < 0;
> + // FIXME: compiler error in egcs-19991214 when compiling to bytecode (on
> ly).
> + // return (words == null ? ival : words[ival - 1]) < 0;
> + int tmp = (words == null ? ival : words[ival - 1]);
> + return tmp < 0;
> }
>> public int signum()