Re: Patch: gij support for slashes in class names

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> It also changes MainThread to not chain ClassNotFoundExceptions to the 
> NoClassDefFoundError that it throws. This reduces the excessive stack 
> trace printed when an invalid class argument is given, bringing us 
> closer to other VM's behavior.

I'm reverting this part of the patch. Unfortunately, it turns out that 
there are still situations where we can end up throwing an exception 
during linking, in which case the exception displayed to the user can be 
confusing.

Bryce

2006-06-01  Bryce McKinlay  <mckinlay@redhat.com>

   * gnu/java/lang/MainThread (run): Revert exception chaining change.

Index: gnu/java/lang/MainThread.java
===================================================================
--- gnu/java/lang/MainThread.java    (revision 114300)
+++ gnu/java/lang/MainThread.java    (working copy)
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@
    catch (ClassNotFoundException x)
      {
        NoClassDefFoundError ncdfe = new NoClassDefFoundError(klass_name);
+        ncdfe.initCause(x);
        throw ncdfe;
      }
      }