After the commit of the updated ASM library for CLJ-713, Clojure builds and passes all tests except for one, compare-reflect-and-asm in reflect.clj.
This can be narrowed down somewhat to a difference in behavior of the following 2 forms evaluated with the latest Clojure and JDK8:
I am not certain, but from a bit of Google searching it appears that this may be a limitation of the ASM library version 4 – it throws exceptions when attempting to read class files produced by JDK 8, because of a newer classfile version number. Links that seem to support this conclusion:
(1) update ASM again to one that supports JDK 8 class files
(2) disable the compare-reflect-and-asm test. Clojure itself does not use the AsmReflector for anything except this unit test. The Java reflector is the default one.
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After the commit of the updated ASM library for CLJ-713, Clojure builds and passes all tests except for one, compare-reflect-and-asm in reflect.clj.
This can be narrowed down somewhat to a difference in behavior of the following 2 forms evaluated with the latest Clojure and JDK8:
I am not certain, but from a bit of Google searching it appears that this may be a limitation of the ASM library version 4 – it throws exceptions when attempting to read class files produced by JDK 8, because of a newer classfile version number. Links that seem to support this conclusion:
http://mail-archive.ow2.org/asm/2013-02/msg00000.html
http://forge.ow2.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=316375&group_id=23&atid=350023
A couple of alternatives are:
(1) update ASM again to one that supports JDK 8 class files
(2) disable the compare-reflect-and-asm test. Clojure itself does not use the AsmReflector for anything except this unit test. The Java reflector is the default one.