The verifier tests come from Mauve. See http://sources.redhat.com/mauve You want the "verify" module in the Mauve cvs repository. In Mauve, only the sources are checked in. However, these need jasmin to be compiled to bytecode. Since jasmin would require either another VM or gcj itself to already be working and installed (just to compile it), we've chose to precompile all the .j files to .class files and then import the result.