Re: Compiling Generics

2009/3/11 Jacob Jennings <[email protected]>:
> Hello, everyone. I just began using GCJ a short time ago, and I've
> just run into a bit of a problem--most likely stemming from my lack of
> knowledge about this compiler. In my Data Structures class, we program
> a lot using generics, and I'd love to use GCJ, but when I attempt to
> compile
>
> public class ListNode<E> {
> ...
> // blah blah, data members, constructors, methods, etc.
> }
>
> I get this error message:
>
> ListNode.java:1: error: '{' expected.
> public class ListNode<E> {
>                        ^
> ListNode.java:1: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
>
> Now when I compile this same code into bytecode with the Sun SDK, then
> compile the bytecode into machine code using GCJ, the compilation
> succeeds, and the resulting binary works perfectly fine. I would like
> to get away from using Sun's SDK unless I'm doing GUI programming. Is
> there a compile-time flag I'm missing or something? The command I'm
> trying to execute is "gcj -o LinkedQueue --main=LinkedQueue
> ListNode.java Queue.java LinkedQueue.java". Thank you.
>
> Jacob D. Jennings
>

What version of gcj are you using?
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Andrew :-)

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