Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: A small exercise Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <5172e967$0$32109$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <517b3461$0$32112$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <2rWdnWTV7bz8FubMnZ2dnUVZ7qGdnZ2d@bt.com> <517c8241$0$32104$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <2fednevwr_TPZuHMnZ2dnUVZ8uCdnZ2d@bt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="023384c1aa284d1305afa0f48d0dff5a"; logging-data="15490"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19JdCePTfeDy+z7+mWj3+iW1jlfw2px2iE=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yUGMK+GL8fPZVW3cV4JVHooUtZM= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:23694 On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:34:49 +0100, Chris Uppal wrote: > But I may as well admit that one piece of evidence against my guess is > that both javac and Eclipse "fail" in the same way. > Might that point to an error in the validation suite? It seems to me that this is the only unique set of files based on the JLS. You cannot make the same statement about JVM or compiler sources and hence about code compiled from them. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |