/******************************************************************************* An implementation of the Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) for JOP Copyright (C) 2007 Paulo Abadie Guedes This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA *******************************************************************************/ package debug; class Test { /* One way to see what the compiler is doing is to add "verbose" to it, like the command below. $ javac -verbose -d java/target/dist/classes -sourcepath java/target/src/common\;java/target/src/jdk_base\; java/target/src/jdk11\;java/target/src/rtapi\; java/target/src/test/HelloWorld/source\; java/target/src/app\;java/target/src/bench -bootclasspath "" -extdirs "" -classpath "" -source 1.4 java/target/src/test/debug/source/debug/Test.java Since it compiles fine with the default classpath, it should not be an issue with Sun's compiler. It's some strange "side effect" (a.k.a. "bug") of changing basic classes such as Object or String. */ public static void checkCompiler(String message, int value) { boolean result = true; String auxMessage = message; // this works auxMessage = message + " result: "; // this is the line where things break auxMessage = message + " result: " + result; // this also fails // auxMessage = " result: " + result; // auxMessage = " " + result; // but this works fine. Why accessing a boolean variable breaks javac, // when EXTERNAL classes are used instead of Sun's classes? auxMessage = " " + true; // this line is ok System.out.println(auxMessage); } public static void testShiftRight() { byte result; byte data = (byte) 0xff; byte expected = 0x0f; result = (byte) ((data >>> 4) & 0x0f); if(expected != result) { System.out.print("Failure: "); System.out.print(expected); System.out.print(" != "); System.out.println(result); } else { System.out.println("Passed."); } } public static void testShiftRightInt() { int result; int data = 0xff; int expected = 0x0f; result = (data >>> 4); if(expected != result) { System.out.print("Failure: "); System.out.print(expected); System.out.print(" != "); System.out.println(result); } else { System.out.println("Passed."); } } public static void main(String args[]) { testShiftRightInt(); testShiftRight(); } }