[committed] allow assert in inner class

Sun Feb 29 21:29:00 GMT 2004

Eric Blake wrote:
> Javac 1.4.2 only fails the test when you use the default -target 1.4. 
> When Neal Gafter at Sun added the -target 1.4.2 switch to javac, one of 
> the changes it makes is that javac no longer initializes a class 
> referenced by a class literal. Likewise, jikes has not been 
> initializing class literals for several releases now. And the upcoming 
> java 1.5 VM (now in beta), which recognizes ldc class_constant, does not 
> initialize the class referenced in ldc.

I took at look at the bytecode generated by -target 1.4.2 and by
JDK 1.5beta.
My recommendation: I don't think it's worth our time to implement
the bytecode 1.4.2 generated. We should just implement the
1.5 semantics using the 'ldc class_constant' bytecodes. However,
beta1 is a bit premature; we should probably wait until the actual
release, or at least a later beta.
Yes, this way we can't generate bytecode that will run correctly
on a 1.4.x JVM. I don't think that's important.
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