Re: BCEL jar version

FindBugs uses its own version of BCEL. It is a variant of
BCEL 5.2, and a patch with the differences is in
        findbugs/src/patches/bcel.diff

We made a number of changes to BCEL that reduced the total
memory allocation and footprint of FindBugs by close to
one third.

Why can't FindBugs use a non-standard version of BCEL in
Ubuntu/Debian?

I've talked with the BCEL people about getting our changes
into the main version of BCEL, but at least one of the changes
we made isn't compatible (it performs HashConsing of ConstantUtf8
objects, and thus the setBytes method of a ConstantUtf8 throws
UnsupportedOperationException in the FindBugs version).

Bill

On Apr 24, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Vladimír Lapáček wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking to create a package of FindBugs for Ubuntu / Debian.
> While doing so, I stumbled upon couple of errors concerning BCEL. I am
> using FindBugs 1.1.3 and BCEL 5.1 and am curious if I am using the
> right version. There is no version number for BCEL in the FindBugs
> distribution.
>
> I also found a notice that FindBugs uses its own modified version of
> BCEL. Is this still true? Cannot we go without this? Because in Ubuntu
> / Debian it would be very difficult to use such one.
>
> Any ideas are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Vladimir
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