Re: [abc] soot doesn't build against recent polyglot

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:

> I'll make the change to Soot and test it against both Polyglot 1.3 and the
> abc version before checking in, unless you'd rather do it.

I've now written the change. I tested (a) that Soot built with Polyglot
1.3 can compile a trivial Java file and (b) that abc and Soot, both built
with our snapshot of Polyglot, pass the test suite.

Unfortunately, it required a rather nasty hack. Apparently it's an error
to catch a checked exception that can't be thrown:

            FileSource source = new FileSource(new File(fileName));
            // This hack is to stop the catch block at the bottom causing an error
            // with versions of Polyglot where the constructor above can't throw IOException
            // It should be removed as soon as Polyglot 1.3 is no longer supported.
            if(false) throw new IOException("Bogus exception");

(this goes in JavaToJimple.java near the top of the compile method)

Please let me know if you're not happy with it, otherwise I'll check it in
to Soot.

I'm going to my parents for Christmas tomorrow evening, so I think the
release will be next week now since I don't want to do it in a rush and
potentially make a mess of it.

Ganesh
Received on Thu Dec 23 00:30:34 2004