Re: mauve results posted nightly

[Stuart Ballard]

Brian Jones wrote:
> It's not a new problem, but I was able to ignore it before.  Now
> japize stops dead in its tracks.  Because I know Classpath has this
> $ClassFactory and JDK 1.4 does not... Jode must be reading something
> in Classpath's .class files referencing this and trying to use
> reflection to load it which fails under the JDK.  Again I used to see
> this (and I ignored it) but it didn't cause japize to die as it does
> now.

Did you ever get a chance to take a look into this? I have a few 
japicompat fixes that I'd like to make a release out of, but I don't 
want to make one with this problem still outstanding.

There are two approaches that I think may be worth pursuing here:

1) Email me the classfile(s) that are a problem (I guess 
java.lang.reflect.Proxy*.class) and I'll forward them to the Jode 
maintainer and see whether he has any ideas. A UTFDataFormatException 
suggests to me that the classfile itself is corrupted, or that the low 
levels of Jode's classfile reading are confused and expecting UTF data 
where there isn't any.

2) Try compiling Classpath, or perhaps just java.lang.reflect.Proxy, 
with a different java compiler. If it *is* an invalid classfile, it 
seems unlikely that two different compilers would both exhibit the same 
incorrect behavior.

Thanks,
Stuart.

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