diff --git a/gcc/cp/ChangeLog b/gcc/cp/ChangeLog
index 30c66d30b5a55cb272caba6f40b92b088f244119..2f726bdf8edf52df7580c08abd2b1fe227c4a6a3 100644
--- a/gcc/cp/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/cp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2006-06-23  Volker Reichelt  <reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
+
+	PR c++/11468
+	* init.c (build_new_1): Handle error_mark_nodes returned by
+	build_java_class_ref.
+	(build_java_class_ref): Do not abort compilation, but return
+	error_mark_node.  Improve error message.  Fix indentation.
+
 2006-06-23  Danny Smith   <dannysmith@users.sourceforge.net>
 
 	PR target/27789
diff --git a/gcc/cp/init.c b/gcc/cp/init.c
index 357cba998126ee84bdb53a16f21707ec78ce3047..c785308699f80ab2dcb7b749e9ebf84ff79b6f97 100644
--- a/gcc/cp/init.c
+++ b/gcc/cp/init.c
@@ -1696,6 +1696,9 @@ build_new_1 (tree placement, tree type, tree nelts, tree init,
       tree class_decl = build_java_class_ref (elt_type);
       static const char alloc_name[] = "_Jv_AllocObject";
 
+      if (class_decl == error_mark_node)
+	return error_mark_node;
+
       use_java_new = 1;
       if (!get_global_value_if_present (get_identifier (alloc_name),
 					&alloc_fn))
@@ -2148,8 +2151,10 @@ build_java_class_ref (tree type)
     {
       jclass_node = IDENTIFIER_GLOBAL_VALUE (get_identifier ("jclass"));
       if (jclass_node == NULL_TREE)
-	fatal_error ("call to Java constructor, while %<jclass%> undefined");
-
+	{
+	  error ("call to Java constructor, while %<jclass%> undefined");
+	  return error_mark_node;
+	}
       jclass_node = TREE_TYPE (jclass_node);
     }
 
@@ -2164,8 +2169,11 @@ build_java_class_ref (tree type)
 	  break;
 	}
     if (!field)
-      internal_error ("can't find class$");
-    }
+      {
+	error ("can't find %<class$%> in %qT", type);
+	return error_mark_node;
+      }
+  }
 
   class_decl = IDENTIFIER_GLOBAL_VALUE (name);
   if (class_decl == NULL_TREE)
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
index b9204ecb7268f6511e1b544ccbcd74cc8c2ad4df..3b3dc6bac2fcabddc39f41990bc09579d613ed5c 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-06-23  Volker Reichelt  <reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
+
+	PR c++/11468
+	* g++.dg/other/java2.C: New test.
+
 2006-06-23  Danny Smith   <dannysmith@users.sourceforge.net>
 
 	PR target/27789
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/java2.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/java2.C
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ba4d5a72c84a39f612207cf4d2bad5344f1f83f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/java2.C
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// PR c++/???
+// { dg-do compile }
+
+extern "Java"
+{
+  struct A {};
+}
+
+typedef void* jclass;
+
+A* p = new A;  // { dg-error "class\\$" }