Re: [Jikes] Bug with -target option

[Eric Blake]

Brian Jones wrote:
> > > I didn't set the source option. It is just a
> > > HelloWorld program, really, so it doesn't use
> > > assertions ;) Should I try setting the source too,
> > > i.e. does source default to 1.4 ? My guess would be
> > > that it's easy to compile 1.1 source for a 1.4
> > > target,
> > > but not the other way around, so that might explain
> > > the problem I'm seeing. I'll check and post a reply
> > > tonight.
> >
> > Setting the source option to 1.2 solved my problem.
>
>
> I think Classpath sets the -target in lib/Makefile.am for jikes
> compiles to 1.1 without setting the -source option.  Should something
> be changed then?  The point was mainly to make emitted class files
> useful to 1.1+ JVMs.

I have just recently changed the behavior of -source and -target in the 
CVS version of jikes (post 1.18).  Before, if you set -target, you could 
not parse assert.  But now, -source and -target are sufficiently 
independent.  With the addition of the new command-line option 
--noassert, you may compile code with assert statements while still 
emitting code workarounds necessary for running on 1.1 JVMs.

For now, jikes 1.18 and CVS jikes default to -source 1.3 and -target 1.3 
if neither is specified, to be drop-in compatible with the behavior of 
javac in JDK 1.4.1_01.

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