IcedTea 2.5.2 Released: Back in the Groovy!

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 30/08/14 00:24, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > With the previous release, a
> > number of Java tools and applications, including Groovy, were broken.
> > This release should resolve these issues.
> 
> That's interesting.  What was this regression, and what was the fix?  I
> can't tell from the release notes.
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> 

It's:

S8051012 [0], LP1360392 [1]: Regression in verifier for <init> method call from inside of a branch

Fix is [2].

[0] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8051012
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1360392
[2] http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea7-forest/hotspot/rev/bad107a5d096
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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