javac doesn't work with jar files with >64k entries

[Michel Trudeau]

Also, someone should log a bug for this issue.   I couldn't find in JBS.

Michel

On 11/15/12 12:02 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> If you could outline the fix, we can do the rest of the donkeywork.
>
> -- jon
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> On 11/15/2012 11:52 AM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>> I have too many things on my plate, it is yours and Jon to call on this.
>>
>> Kumar
>>
>> ----- martinrb at google.com wrote:
>> > From: martinrb at google.com
>> > To: kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.com
>> > Cc: compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net, xueming.shen at oracle.com
>> > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 4:46:54 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada 
>> Pacific
>> > Subject: Re: javac doesn't work with jar files with >64k entries
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> This bug should just be fixed - I'm guessing it's 20 lines of code or so.
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>> >
>> We can live with this bug because we can just turn off optimized zip 
>> in javac, but it would be nice to have the optimzed version work 
>> correctly, and I might be able to cook up a fix if no one else is 
>> going to volunteer to work on it.  Let me know.
>>
>> >
>> Martin
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>>          as JimH would say "I think I hear my management calling....." :)
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>>     >
>>     The thorny compatibility issues are indeed hard (seriously, the
>>     risk and effort of a ZIP64 backport is too high and the value
>>     provided too low), .....  but for the issue of jdk7 javac not
>>     understanding jdk6-created jar files with >64k entries, I suggest
>>     "simply" fixing the code as I outlined and adapting T6836682 to a
>>     non-jtreg test (because it would need both a jdk6 and a jdk7 as
>>     inputs).
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