Re: Private Constructors??????

[Patrick Tullmann <tullmann@cs.utah.edu>]

Craig Milo Rogers wrote:
> 	"pj_Thread.java" has two cases of (private) inner classes with
> private constructors.  When I recompiled with jikes on Linux (RH6.2),
> the resulting .class refused to initialize.

This seems to be a defined "runtime incompatibility":
	http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4142972.html

Basically, older java compilers do not generate the appropriate magic
accessor methods for letting outer classes access private
methods/constructors of inner classes.  I've made the required
constructors package-access since that seems more appropriate than
relying on a compiler to generate a magic method.

> 	Why didn't I get this same error with the class library supplied
> with ANTS-2.0.0?  Perhaps it's a different version of jnodeos than
> the one jnodeos distribution on the Web site, which is:

Must have been the compiler used to generate the .class files?  We
used jikes v1.06, I think.

-Pat

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