Description e2e4e7e5f2f4@yahoo.de 2006-03-28 17:25:13 EST

// Puzzle 86 from "Java Puzzlers" by Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter

public class PoisonParen {

  static int i1 = -2147483648;

  static int i2 = -(2147483648);

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("i1=" + i1);
    System.out.println("i2=" + i2);
  }
}


This program does compile within Eclipse 3.1.2 using JRE 1.5.0_02
and the output is as follows:

i1=-2147483648
i2=-2147483648

However, it does not compile using the JDK 1.5.0_02 directly.
The output of the JDK is:

javac PoisonParen.java
PoisonParen.java:12: integer number too large: 2147483648
  static int i2 = -(2147483648);
                    ^
1 error

The OS used in both cases is Windows XP.