Description Olivier Thomann 2002-11-27 09:29:08 EST

In 1119, we have a way not to generate code for an assignment with no effect.
This is for code like:
class A {
   int i;

   A() {
      i = i;
   }
}

In case of an inner class, we might want to do it anyway:

public class A {
    int i;
    A(int j) {
    	i = j;
    }
    A() {
    }
    class B extends A {
        B() {
            this.i = A.this.i;
        }
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        A a = new A(3);
        System.out.print(a.i + " ");
        System.out.print(a.new B().i);
    }
}

Compile and run and you will end up with:
3 0

instead of:
3 3

Javac returns the proper values.
The bug is that the assignment this.i = A.this.i; is not generated.