Name: mc57594 Date: 01/20/97


The javac compiler crashes with a stack overflow on compiling the
kawa scheme interpeter. It seems that if I replace the blaket import of classes
with explicit imports, the code compiles just fine. For example:
 
import kawa.math.*

is replaced with:

import kawa.math.Numeric;
import kawa.math.RatNum;
import kawa.math.IntNum;

The compiler shouldn't crash and I'm not sure *why* it is crashing. It almost
seems like there are some problems with complex package includes. In the
kawa distribution, some *strange* relationships exist between packages.

codegen is used by everything.

kawa.lang is used by kawa.math;
kawa.math is used by kawa.lang;

kawa.standard uses kawa.lang and kawa.math;

Inside the packages, individual class inheritence is *not* circular, but the
use of packages is circular.
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