------- Additional Comments From tromey at gcc dot gnu dot org 2004-10-28 18:20 ------- Nobody is planning to add backward compatibility code here. The exception was added to the 1.4 verifier because it wasn't possible to correctly compile valid java programs without it. So, targeting 1.4 makes the most sense IMO.
If someone wanted to write a patch to provide 1.2 compatibility in some subset of cases, and made this conditional on a command-line switch, we may accept it. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6163
