odd gcj/swt directory launch difficulty

Sun Jul 18 22:36:00 GMT 2004

Hi GCJ folks,
I've been using Mohan Embar's kindly provided thisiscool-gcc 
distribution for gcj/swt development with great results. Recently I 
upgraded to the 3.4 package (build 20040607) and encountered an 
interesting directory error. After my program successfully compiled, I 
moved it and swt-win32-3054.dll to a new directory named "win-test" and 
ran the application, only to receive a NullPointerException once the 
code reached the first SWT reference. The interesting part is that when 
I changed the name ot the "win-test" directory to "wintest", the program 
worked fine.
After further trial-and-error tests, I've found that the program won't 
run so long as the directory that houses it has between 8 and 10 
alphanumeric characters, inclusive.
Is this normal behavior, or somehow peculiar to my system? The upside 
is that the behavior seems to have disappeared in thisiscool-gcc-3.5 
(build 20040630).
-David