A customer is running into several compiler errors when compiling the following code with javac with the -O flag that do not occur when I run either without it or with -g.


public class CrashJavac {
public CrashJavac() {
}
public void crash() {
final CrashJavac crash = this;
Object obj = new Object() {
public String toString() {
return crash.toString();
}
};
}
}

Running javac -O CrashJavac.java causes the following error message:

sun.tools.java.CompilerError: addReference CrashJavac crash
        at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Compiled Code)
        at java.lang.Error.<init>(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.java.CompilerError.<init>(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.java.ClassDefinition.addReference(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.java.ClassDefinition.getReference(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.tree.Context.noteReference(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.tree.Context.makeReference(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.tree.UplevelReference.codeArguments(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.tree.NewInstanceExpression.codeCommon(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.tree.NewInstanceExpression.code(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.tree.ExpressionStatement.code(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.tree.DeclarationStatement.code(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceField.code(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceField.code(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.compileClass(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.compile(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.javac.Main.compile(Compiled Code)
        at sun.tools.javac.Main.main(Compiled Code)
CrashJavac.java:0: class CrashJavac:void crash()@sun.tools.java.CompilerError: addReference CrashJavac crash
public class CrashJavac {
^
1 error