Re: [OT] Java complaint Was: Re: Environment variables for Debian (e.g. JAVA_HOME, etc)

[Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>]

Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:10:09PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:40:27AM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> >
> > And people wonder why I don't like Java...
>
> Can someone explain to me why "java foo.class" has to fail with an
> obscure error?  (You're not suppoed to specify .class)  Jeez.
>
> 	if (!strcmp(".class", x+strlen(x)-6)) {
> 		if (fixit) x[strlen(x)-7]=0;
> 		else if (prettyerror) printf("Don't specify .class");
> 		else {
> 			obscure();
> 		}
> 	}
>
> Can we at least have kaffe and friends give a pretty message?

That's a nice idea, actually.

Please send me a patch[1] for kaffe and I'll make sure it goes in. The 
file is kaffe/kaffe/main.c, the main class is loaded by the main2 function.

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] Usual taintedness conditions apply, i.e. you should not have signed 
NDAs preventing you from contributing, looked at Sun's SCSL covered 
code, decompiled it, etc.