Name: laC46010 Date: 11/26/96


JLS explicitly states (JLS, 8.6.5, p. 179):

"An explicit constructor invocation statement may not refer to any
instance variables or instance methods declared in this class or any
superclass, or use this or super in any expression; otherwise, a
compile-time error occurs."

JDK1.1M Java compiler have changed status of the error message
"Can't reference super before the superclass constructor has been called"
to warning. As a result the JCK1.1 tests checking the above assertion fail:

lang/CLSS/clss217/clss21704/clss21704.result
lang/CLSS/clss217/clss21705/clss21705.result
lang/CLSS/clss217/clss21706/clss21706.result
lang/CLSS/clss217/clss21707/clss21707.result
lang/CLSS/clss217/clss21712/clss21712.result
lang/CLSS/clss217/clss21713/clss21713.result
lang/CLSS/clss217/clss21714/clss21714.result
lang/CLSS/clss217/clss21716/clss21716.result

See one of them below.

/export/ld32/jdk_1.1M/bin/javac -d /export/ld12/java/leo/res/dev-jdk1.1-f/classes tests/lang/CLSS/clss217/clss21704/clss21704.java

tests/lang/CLSS/clss217/clss21704/clss21704.java:17: Can't reference super before the superclass constructor has been called.
this(super.field1);
^
1 warning

Test source:

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// Ident: @(#)clss21704.java 1.1 96/11/11
// Copyright 11/11/96 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved
package javasoft.sqe.tests.lang.clss217.clss21704;


import java.io.PrintStream;
 
class clss21704_b {
int field1 = 666;
}
class clss21704_a extends clss21704_b {
int field1 = 777;
clss21704_a(int arg) {
field1 = arg;
}
clss21704_a() {
this(super.field1);
}
}

public class clss21704 {
  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
     System.exit(run(argv, System.out) + 95/*STATUS_TEMP*/);
  }
  public static int run(String argv[],PrintStream out) {
clss21704_a x = new clss21704_a();
return 2;
  }
}

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