RE: gcj inner class syntax sugar.

[Alexander.Farber]

Hi,

it's not just GCJ, it's Java convention for "inner classes":

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/solaris/javac.html

"Inner class definitions produce additional class files. These class files have 
names combining the inner and outer class names, such as 
MyClass$MyInnerClass.class."

Regards
Alex 

> -----Original Message-----
> Of ext Paul D. Smith
> %% Steve Pribyl <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   sp> I am trying to build an application using GCJ.  GCJ creates file
>   sp> with "$" in the name.
> 
> I wonder if there's any opportunity to discuss this naming convention
> with the GCJ folks, and maybe get it changed?  This will make using GNU
> make (or any other make) with GCJ quite painful.  For whatever reason,
> handling of special characters in make is and always has been an
> ill-defined and difficult area... best to simply avoid them.
> 
> Characters which are special to GNU make are whitespace, colon (":"),
> and dollar ("$").  If you're being cautious it's not a bad idea to avoid
> semicolon (";") and sharp/pound ("#"), and _maybe_ equal ("=") as well.
>