------- Comment #8 from rguenther at suse dot de 2008-03-11 10:03 -------
Subject: Re: [4.3/4.4 Regression] Rejects JArray<jboolean>
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, aph at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
> ------- Comment #7 from aph at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-03-11 09:58 -------
> Okay, but I don't quite understand this final sentence:
>
> "Still with C++ now reducing operations on bit-precision types
> you get different answers for the above case now."
>
> What exactly do you mean by this?
With gcc 4.2
jboolean j = 2;
if (j)
...
was in some cases compiled to assign true to j. Starting with
gcc 4.3 all jboolean values will consistently behave as if
you'd write j & 1. See the libjava fix
2008-01-18 Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
PR c++/33887
* link.cc (_Jv_Linker::prepare_constant_time_tables):
has_interfaces is boolean, treat it as such.
that corrected one instance in libjava that we 'miscompiled' after
this change.
Richard.
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