IBM DK 1.2.2 bug

[forrozeiro]

Hi there.

I think I've found a bug on IBM Developer Kit 1.2.2 in an AIX 4.3. I would like to know whether anyone of you has experienced this bug. Please consider the following method:

public String crazyMethod( long aLongParam ) {
....
}

When I call the above method like this:

crazyMethod( anObject.getSomeLongValue() )

Inside crazyMethod, aLongParam has a value which is much different from the one returned by anObject.getSomeLongValue(). However, if I do this:

long value = anObject.getSomeLongValue();
crazyMethod( value );

It works fine. Notice that the parameter is declared long, the anObject.getSomeLongValue return value is declared long
and it returns a anObject's private variable, which is a long.

If I upgrade to IBM DK 1.3.1, will the problem be solved ? Is there any patch to eliminate that bug ?

Thank you in advance.