Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:31:29 -0500
From: Zoran Budimlic <###@###.###>
Subject: Still having problems with JSR14 prototype
To: Neal M Gafter <###@###.###>

Hi Neal!

After a week or so of playing with your prototype compiler, we still
have a couple of issues.

We firmly believe that there should at least be a setter method for
sun.tools.javac.main.Main.options.

Right now, this is a private field that is being initialized within
javac.main.Main.compile() method.

This field is being directly used in some private methods in
javac.main.Main.

There is no way to override javac.main.Main.compile() as it is now,
because we have no way to set the
javac.main.Main.options to a correct value. If we don't set it, then the
compiler crashes later on when trying
to acces this uninitialized private field.

We can GET the options from Context, but that's useless since nobody
SETS the options if we override javac.main.Main.compile().


Also, is there a particular reason why the constructors in the
individual phases of the compiler
(for example Flow and TransTypes) are private? This makes it impossible
to extend these phases
since our phase constructor cannot make a call to super(...) as
described in Context.java documentation.
We believe that these constructors should be lifted to protected to
enable the kind of extensibility that
Context.java talks about.

Thanks a lot for your help, we immensely appretiate all your assistance
on these issues.

Zoran.