At the moment, a reference to a static method won't cause the method's class to be considered as live. This can lead to incorrect collection of the class. The fix is to somehow arrange for this class to be marked. For static fields this is handled because we emit explicit _Jv_InitClass calls for the field's class; the class reference ends up in the constant pool and is marked there. One potential fix would be to move class initialization calls for static methods to the caller (they are now in the callee). This might be difficult (there are many calls from C++, for instance).
Closing as won't fix as the Java front-end has been removed from the trunk.