Name: sg39081 Date: 10/22/97


class InitBug
{
    // Initializing value must be a final int
    final int DEFAULT = -1;

    short Short;
    Long variable_of_any_type; // String, int, long, short, Integer, Long,
etc... all work

    InitBug()
    {
        Short = DEFAULT;

        // As long as Short is not the last variable initialized, the error
occurs
        // The error occurs before the variable initialization below is
type-checked
        variable_of_any_type = 5;
    }
}


sun.tools.java.CompilerError: addReference InitBug this
        at sun.tools.java.ClassDefinition.addReference(ClassDefinition.java)
        at sun.tools.java.ClassDefinition.getReference(ClassDefinition.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.Context.noteReference(Context.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.Context.makeReference(Context.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.ThisExpression.checkValue(ThisExpression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.Expression.checkAmbigName(Expression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.FieldExpression.checkCommon(FieldExpression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.FieldExpression.checkValue(FieldExpression.java)
        at
sun.tools.tree.IdentifierExpression.checkValue(IdentifierExpression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.AssignExpression.checkValue(AssignExpression.java)
        at
sun.tools.tree.BinaryAssignExpression.check(BinaryAssignExpression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.ExpressionStatement.check(ExpressionStatement.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.Statement.checkBlockStatement(Statement.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
(http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi).
1 error

======================================================================