1. fixed bugs 578+579

2. optimization: don't emit any code guarded by an if which is
constant-false 3. Changed treatment of startContext to get rid of
-nopredefs (but no success there yet)

2 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/pending/pos/bug577.scala b/test/pending/pos/bug577.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ede45399a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/pending/pos/bug577.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+trait PriorityTree {
+  type Node <: BasicTreeNode;
+
+  val top = initTree;
+  top.next = (initTree);
+  top.next.prev = (top);
+
+  def initTree : Node;
+
+
+
+
+  trait BasicTreeNode {
+    private[PriorityTree] var next  : Node = _;
+    private[PriorityTree] var prev  : Node = _;
+    private[PriorityTree] var chld : Node = _;
+    //var next  : Node = _;
+    //var prev  : Node = _;
+    //var chld : Node = _;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/test/pending/pos/bug579.scala b/test/pending/pos/bug579.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9b4575835b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/pending/pos/bug579.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package my.webapp.bean.stuff;
+
+import scala.reflect.BeanProperty
+
+class MyBean {
+  [BeanProperty]
+  var frombulizer: String = _;
+}
+
+object Test extends Application {
+
+  val x = new MyBean;
+  x.frombulizer = "hello"
+
+}