From owner-freebsd-java Tue Jan 20 19:31:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06159 for java-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 19:31:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06154 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 19:31:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA25415; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 20:31:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA10971; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 20:31:38 -0700 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 20:31:38 -0700 Message-Id: <199801210331.UAA10971@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Archie Cobbs Cc: kaffe@kaffe.org, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kaffe bug? In-Reply-To: <199801210235.SAA09411@bubba.whistle.com> References: <199801210235.SAA09411@bubba.whistle.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > When I compile this (obviously broken) program: > > public class Foo { > char[] x = new char[] = { ':' }; > } > > ..using "javac -O -g EtherAddr.java", I get a compiler crash: rocky:~/tmp % cat > Foo.java public class Foo { char[] x = new char[] = { ':' }; } rocky:~/tmp % javac -O -g Foo.java Foo.java:2: Invalid left hand side of assignment. char[] x = new char[] = { ':' }; ^ Foo.java:2: Array constants can only be used in initializers. char[] x = new char[] = { ':' }; ^ 2 errors rocky:~/tmp % Nate