Re: [fedora-java] Still newbie: compiler crash, walk-arounds?

[Alec Leamas]

On 27/02/15 10:50, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
>  ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Severin Gehwolf" <sgehwolf(a)redhat.com&gt;
> > To: "Alec Leamas" <leamas.alec(a)gmail.com&gt;
> > Cc: "java-devel" <java-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
> > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 11:48:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: [fedora-java] Still newbie: compiler crash, walk-arounds?
> >
> > On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 10:32 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote:
> >> On 27/02/15 09:25, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 18:06 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote:
> >>> The sources seem to be using "enum" as an identifier which became
> a
> >>> keyword in JDK 1.5 and up. FWIW, it was all there in the compiler error
> >>> messages ;-) You need to apply the attached patch which gets you past
> >>> this compile problem. Then it fails with:
> >>
> >> I have already patched those things, I sent you this testcase because
> >> there is a compiler crash, not because there are errors. IMHO, a
> >> compiler should never crash for whatever input.
> >
> > This is:
> > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8069181
> >
> > It'll be fixed once 8u60 becomes GA.
>
>  And naturally fixed in 9 by not supporting 1.5 or older :). 

Thanks, I suspected that this was already reported and in the pipeline, 
but couldn't find the bug id. Sorry for the noise.

Cheers!

--alec