Array declaration compiler bug?

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

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I noticed today that a program I've written has different behavior when
one of the variables is declared as:

int outPixel[]

instead of

int[] outPixel

Shouldn't these exhibit exactly the same behavior all the time?


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Kenneth P. Turvey <[email protected]>

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[Patricia Shanahan]

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I noticed today that a program I've written has different behavior when
one of the variables is declared as:

int outPixel[]

instead of

int[] outPixel

Shouldn't these exhibit exactly the same behavior all the time?

It is very difficult to say from a code snippet. For example:

int outPixel[],y;

and

int[] outPixel,y;

are different. Can you produce a complete, self-contained example?

Patricia

 

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

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It is very difficult to say from a code snippet. For example:

int outPixel[],y;

and

int[] outPixel,y;

are different. Can you produce a complete, self-contained example?

Yes, I understand the difference of that above. I'll see if I can get
something small to work over the next week and post something at that
time. The complete statement was:

int[] outPixel = new int[]{0, 0, 0};

and

int outPixel[] = new int[]{0, 0, 0};

This was followed by a looping construct that works fine for the first
line, but seems to use a newly initialized array for each iteration when
the second declaration is used.

The scoping is all wrong.

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[Mike Schilling]

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It is very difficult to say from a code snippet. For example:

int outPixel[],y;

and

int[] outPixel,y;

are different. Can you produce a complete, self-contained example?

Yes, I understand the difference of that above. I'll see if I can get
something small to work over the next week and post something at that
time. The complete statement was:

int[] outPixel = new int[]{0, 0, 0};

and

int outPixel[] = new int[]{0, 0, 0};

This was followed by a looping construct that works fine for the first
line, but seems to use a newly initialized array for each iteration when
the second declaration is used.

The scoping is all wrong.

If that's really the only difference, you might try disassembling the
resulting code with javap -c and seeing if that gives you any clues.