Name: sgC58550 Date: 05/15/97


Ok, I tried to compile the following piece of code:

package alpha.server;
public final
class Server {
  {
    try {
    } catch(Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace(System.err);
      throw new RuntimeException("Static initializer failed!");
    }
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("test!");
  }
}

The idea was to use a static initializer to initialize a static final
field with a few statements that might have thrown a checked exception.
Since static initializer cannot throw checked exceptions I tried to use
the code above to catch and print the checked exception and then to throw
a RuntimeException which the static initializers are allowed to throw.
However the compiler crashed with the following trace dump:

sun.tools.java.CompilerError: copyInline
        at sun.tools.tree.TryStatement.copyInline(TryStatement.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.CompoundStatement.copyInline(CompoundStatement.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.InlineMethodExpression.copyInline(InlineMethodExpression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.MethodExpression.makeVarInits(MethodExpression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.MethodExpression.checkValue(MethodExpression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.MethodExpression.check(MethodExpression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.ExpressionStatement.check(ExpressionStatement.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.CompoundStatement.check(CompoundStatement.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.Statement.checkMethod(Statement.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceField.check(SourceField.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.checkFields(SourceClass.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.checkInternal(SourceClass.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.check(SourceClass.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.Main.compile(Main.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.Main.main(Main.java)
error: An error has occurred in the compiler; please file a bug report
(###@###.###).
1 error

I tried then to use the following static initializer:

{
  try {
  } catch(Exception e) {
  }
}

And it crashed again. I think that means using try-catch inside
static initializers always crashes the compiler...

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