I think the trunk handles some or all of Java 8 now. See BCEL-174, BCEL-175.

Gary


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> when building [lang] with Java 8 I get the following error [1]: Caused by:
> org.apache.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in
> constant pool: 18
>
> So it looks like Clirr is using a BCEL version that doesn't support Java 8.
> Can anybody tell me what the current state of BCEL is? We have version 6 in
> trunk. the latest release is 5.2. So I assume we're breaking BC. Can we
> release a fix for 5.2 that can handle Java 8?
>
> Regards,
> Benedikt
>
> [1] https://paste.apache.org/khuq
>
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