As expression of the form:

    private static final String str1 = (flag ? "STRING" : null);

is incorrectly evaluated to be "STRING" even when flag is false.

The attached program demonstrates this. It works on JDK 1.4.2 (and
earlier) and fails on JDK 1.5.0-rc. This is definitely a javac bug,
because compiling this program on 1.4.2 and running it on 1.5.0-rc
works fine. Compiling it on 1.5.0 (with -source 1.4 and -target 1.4)
fails when run on either 1.5.0-rc or 1.4.2.

When run on 1.5.0, the following error occurs:

javac bug.java
java bug

flag = false
str1 = REGRESSION!!!
str2 = null
str3 = OK


The expected output (as demonstrated on 1.4.2 and by inspection) is:

flag = false
str1 = null
str2 = null
str3 = OK