Re: [eclipse-dev] Sporadic compiler problems resulting in spurious data

[Srikanth S Adayapalam <srikanth_sankaran@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Srikanth S Adayapalam/India/IBM
> Subject: Sporadic compiler problems resulting in spurious data flow/
> control flow related errors.

[...]

> The development team of your favorite compiler is
> busy working on solving some nasty, sporadic, spurious
> compiler errors that have started showing up in the last
> couple of months or so. These have been observed in 3.8 M4
> build and some subsequent ones.
>
>  These are tracked via:
>
>  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=372319 and its duplicate
>  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=372944

We are very pleased to report that this issue has been
resolved and the fix is being submitted for today's weekly
integration build.

Impact Assessment: Who is affected by this bug ?
------------------------------------------------

Vanilla IDE users are very unlikely to be affected.

You may be impacted if

    - You are using 3.8 M3 or later as your build compiler AND
    - Your build set up involves using the PDE/Build capabilities
      to compile bundles in parallel (e.g ANT parallel tasks.)
      (See PDE Guide > Tasks > PDE Build Advanced Topics)


Recommendation for impacted teams:
---------------------------------

(a) Upgrade your build environment compiler to a new fixed version
    once it becomes available.
(b) Alternately, pass the -warn:-resource command line switch to
    the compiler.

Thanks!
Srikanth.