------- Additional Comments From wasabi at larvalstage dot net 2005-01-08 04:53 ------- Are you sure this is a bug?
Quote from the JLS: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/classes.doc.html 8.4.6.3 Requirements in Overriding and Hiding If a method declaration overrides or hides the declaration of another method, then a compile-time error occurs if they have different return types or if one has a return type and the other is void. Moreover, a method declaration must not have a throws clause that conflicts (§8.4.4) with that of any method that it overrides or hides; otherwise, a compile-time error occurs. That tells me that a compile time error SHOULD occure because the return types are different. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14979
