using gcj: bad value constant type 0, index 0

using gcj: bad value constant type 0, index 0

[Heinz Stockinger]

Hello,

I saw the following error

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q2/msg00453.html

and get the same one for a simple HelloWorld program using gcj 2.96 + 
ant on RH7.3.

Here are the details:

class HelloWorld {

  public static void main (String args[]) {

    System.out.println("Hello World!");

  }
  
}

[hst@lxshare0313 ant]$ less build.xml 
<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<project name="test" default="compile" basedir="."> 

     <property name="src" value="."/> 
     <property name="build" value="build"/>

     <target name="init">  
          <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
     </target>

     <target name="compile" depends="init"> 
          <!-- Compile the java code -->
          
          <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}"/> 
     </target>
</project>

[hst@lxshare0313 ant]$ ant -Dbuild.compiler=gcj -v
Apache Ant version 1.5 compiled on July 9 2002
Buildfile: build.xml
Detected Java version: 1.4 in: /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/jre
Detected OS: Linux
parsing buildfile build.xml with URI = file:/home/hst/java/ant/build.xml
Project base dir set to: /home/hst/java/ant
Build sequence for target `compile' is [init, compile]
Complete build sequence is [init, compile]

init:

compile:
    [javac] build.xml skipped - don't know how to handle it
    [javac] build/HelloWorld.class skipped - don't know how to handle it
    [javac] src/HelloWorld.java added as 
/home/hst/java/ant/build/src/HelloWorld.class doesn't exist.
    [javac] src/HelloWorld.o skipped - don't know how to handle it
    [javac] src/HelloWorld skipped - don't know how to handle it
    [javac] Compiling 1 source file to /home/hst/java/ant/build
    [javac] Using gcj compiler
dropping /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/jre/jre/lib/rt.jar from path as it 
doesn't exist
dropping /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/Classes/classes.jar from path as it 
doesn't exist
dropping /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/Classes/ui.jar from path as it doesn't 
exist
    [javac] Compilation arguments:
    [javac] '-d'
    [javac] '/home/hst/java/ant/build'
    [javac] '-classpath'

    [javac] 
'/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/jre/lib/ext/dnsns.jar:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/jre/lib/ext/ldapsec.jar:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/jre/lib/ext/sunjce_provider.jar:/home/hst/java/ant/build:/home/hst/Reptor/edg-java-tools/jakarta-ant/lib/xml-apis.jar:/home/hst/Reptor/edg-java-tools/jakarta-ant/lib/xercesImpl.jar:/home/hst/Reptor/edg-java-tools/jakarta-ant/lib/optional.jar:/home/hst/Reptor/edg-java-tools/jakarta-ant/lib/junit-3.7.jar:/home/hst/Reptor/edg-java-tools/jakarta-ant/lib/ant.jar:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/lib/tools.jar:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/jre/lib/rt.jar:/home/hst/java/ant'
    [javac] '-C'
    [javac] 
    [javac] The ' characters around the executable and arguments are
    [javac] not part of the command.
    [javac] File to be compiled:
    [javac]     /home/hst/java/ant/src/HelloWorld.java
    [javac] java/lang/String.java:0: bad value constant type 0, index 0

BUILD FAILED
file:/home/hst/java/ant/build.xml:14: Compile failed; see the compiler 
error output for details.
	at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.compile(Javac.java:842)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.execute(Javac.java:682)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:317)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:309)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:334)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1250)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:610)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.start(Main.java:196)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:235)

Total time: 2 seconds


However, I succeed when I use the gcj compiler directly:
[hst@lxshare0313 src]$ gcj -c HelloWorld.java -o HelloWorld.o
[hst@lxshare0313 src]$ gcj --main=HelloWorld -o HelloWorld HelloWorld.o

==> success

Any idea what the error above can be?

Thanks,
Heinz
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