[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 at redhat.com>
>> To: "Alec Leamas" <leamas.alec at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "java-devel" <java-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>> 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