------- Comment #2 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-12-26 13:08 ------- No, compiling .java should work with the gcc driver and if it does not, then there is a bug there. And we should not error out.
Also the ICE is a bug which needs to fixed seperately from the "driver" issue anyways. The result without the ICE is not confusing at all: Without ICE the result would be still confusing at least to most C/C++/Fortran/Ada programmers :): /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../../lib64/crt1.o: In function `_start': (.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main' that means you did not include a main function. hello.java:(.text+0x12): undefined reference to `_Jv_InitClass' that means you did not include the library libgcj. These are all normal common problems for beginner programmers. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30292
