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Re: serialVersionUID fixes

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx dot de>
Cc: Warren Levy <WarrenL at cruzio dot com>, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:47:57 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: serialVersionUID fixes
References: <200210041056.07526.konqueror@gmx.de><3DA00EAC.F8601DF4@cruzio.com><200210061246.06196.konqueror@gmx.de>

Michael Koch writes:
 > 
 > From what I read in the mailinglists and the web I know that 
 > serialVersionUID in SUNs JDK is calced from their API. We need to 
 > have the some values in serialVersionUID because of serialization 
 > between libgcj and JDK versions over net. So I used the JDK 1.4.1 
 > serialver tool to get some (unfortunately not all) serial versions I 
 > knew that were missing (using some finds/greps) and added them.

This should only be done when serialVersionUID is different from that
returned by JDK.  We should then figure out _why_ it's different
rather than just adding a nw method.

Andrew.

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