Name: diC59631 Date: 11/10/97


I narrowed down the problem to the following excerpt from an
applet of mine:


public class test1 extends Object
{

     private final short daywidth = 80;
     private final short mTopLeftX = 80; // measured from top left corner
     private final short mTopLeftY = 40; // of the matrix border
     private final short sTopLeftX = mTopLeftX+(7*daywidth);
     private final short sTopLeftY = mTopLeftY;


}


This was originally an applet, but I kept stripping it down until I was left
with that piece of code, which produces the following error:


sun.tools.java.CompilerError: addReference test1 this
        at sun.tools.java.ClassDefinition.addReference(ClassDefinition.java:1077
)
        at sun.tools.java.ClassDefinition.getReference(ClassDefinition.java:1072
)
        at sun.tools.tree.Context.noteReference(Context.java:308)
        at sun.tools.tree.Context.makeReference(Context.java:329)
        at sun.tools.tree.ThisExpression.checkValue(ThisExpression.java:76)
        at sun.tools.tree.Expression.checkAmbigName(Expression.java:210)
        at sun.tools.tree.FieldExpression.checkCommon(FieldExpression.java:135)
        at sun.tools.tree.FieldExpression.checkValue(FieldExpression.java:111)
        at sun.tools.tree.IdentifierExpression.checkValue(IdentifierExpression.j
ava:224)
        at sun.tools.tree.Expression.checkInitializer(Expression.java:170)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceField.check(SourceField.java:434)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.checkFields(SourceClass.java:838)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.checkInternal(SourceClass.java:615)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.check(SourceClass.java:566)
        at sun.tools.javac.Main.compile(Main.java:318)
        at sun.tools.javac.Main.main(Main.java:473)
error: An error has occurred in the compiler; please file a bug report (http://j
ava.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi).
1 error



...so something about that combination of constants makes the compiler unhappy.
I commented out the last declaration and the error disappeared. I commented
out the first and the next-to-last declarations, and the problem disappeared.
I hard-coded the last declaration to 40 since it was just a copy of another
constant anyhow, and the problem disappeared.

The compiler seems to die in a late phase, since any syntax errors will cause
it to stop first without dying.

I'm compiling this on a 486 DX4-100, 48 megs RAM, Win95 OSR2
(Review ID: 19909)
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