#849 Assertion failure in jikes 1.20 with +U command line arg

[Anonymous]

We use the +U command line argument when building jikes rvm with jikes. Our build works with jikes 1.19, but fails with an assertion failure on jikes 1.20.

[dgrove@angmar RVM.classes]$ jikes +U -classpath .:rvmrt.jar Dummy.java
jikes: symbol.h:1110: bool TypeSymbol::IsInner() const: Assertion `(! IsLocal() && ! Anonymous()) || (IsNested() && ! ACC_STATIC())' failed.

I'm attempting to build Jikes RVM 2.3.2 on linux/x86. This release of Jikes RVM uses classpath 0.08.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

The +U may or may not be significant. If I give the same command without +U, then jikes does not fail.

However, it may not be seeing the problematic source file, as the reason we use +U is that we want to see different versions of some of the files that are in rvmrt.jar that come from the classpath libraries.

[Dave Grove]

There is now a tar file at

http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikesrvm/sanityResults/break-jikes-1.20.tar.gz

If you grab this, and then do the command jikes +U -cp rvmrt.jar Dummy.java you will get an assertion failure from jikes 1.20. It works with jikes 1.19.

--dave

[Eric Z. Ayers]

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FYI, this is still an issue in Jikes 1.22. When we back
down to
1.18 our code compiles fine (we also compile our code with
with JBuilder,
which doesn't complain.)