On 04/01/2011 08:32 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 18:43 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: >>>> java.lang.NumberFormatException: invalid character at position 2 in 09 >>> >>> That's just a bug: leading zeroes in format fields aren't being handled >>> correctly. The "09" is being parsed as an octal number because it begins >>> with a zero. >> >> The fix for the exception is >> > Coincidentally the exact same problem and fix were discovered by Pekka > and went into GNU Classpath recently. gcc is in Stage 1, so we could just bulk-import Classpath. What do you think? Andrew.