------- Comment #6 from vadimn at redhat dot com 2005-11-21 21:52 ------- (In reply to comment #5) > It is not that bizarre as what is happening is that the function is > being marked as a "pure" function so it does nothing useful, so we > remove it.
Except that under Bryce's GCJ, the function terminates successfully even if you throw in System.out.println's into it, thus tainting its "purity". -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24980