From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24141 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2005 15:33:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact mauve-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: mauve-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24004 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2005 15:33:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zixvpm) (207.203.41.67) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Apr 2005 15:33:23 -0000 Received: from zixvpm01.stv.org (ZixVPM [127.0.0.1]) by Outbound.stv.org (Proprietary) with ESMTP id 089291302E0 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:33:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from STVAVAPPL1.BHMSTV (unknown [10.104.14.2]) by zixvpm (Proprietary) with SMTP id 87BFA190003; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:33:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from unknown(10.104.145.22) by STVAVAPPL1.BHMSTV via csmap id 3d038ef4_b8c1_11d9_9129_00304811e8c8_3836; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:13:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j3TFVk9h000407; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:31:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from archie@dellroad.org) Message-ID: <42725362.3020902@dellroad.org> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:33:00 -0000 From: Archie Cobbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041129 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Schwarz Cc: Thomas Zander , mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com, classpath@gnu.org Subject: Re: can Mauve help me test a PersonalJava implementation? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 Steven Schwarz wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion to make jars -- that will definitely help > make things more convenient, if I can get around something else. > Here's the something else: > > If I compile with a JDK 1.4.2 or 1.5.0 I end up with class files with > major.minor version 46.0. If I attempt to run them with a > PersonalJava or JDK 1.1.8 VM, I run up against the limitation that > those VMs are only empowered to accept classes whose versions are in > the range 45.0 .. 45.65535, i.e. strictly before version 46.0. JDKs > 1.2.2 and 1.3.1 will produce class files with versions before 46.0, > but unfortunately, cannot compile Mauve, as I explained in my previous > posting. > > So I guess my question about whether I can use Mauve in the > environment I need to is made equivalent to whether I can find a > compiler that will compile Mauve producing classes with version > strictly before 46.0. Any suggestions for such a compiler? I've only > ever used Sun (or blackdown) JDKs. Will Jikes help? Just compile with "-target 1.4" (or whatever). -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * CTO, Awarix * http://www.awarix.com