This is the mail archive of the java-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the Java project.

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format:	[Raw text]

Re: Patch: embedded window extension

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
Cc: Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx dot de>, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 30 Jul 2004 09:45:03 -0600
Subject: Re: Patch: embedded window extension
References: <200407171041.39481.konqueror@gmx.de> <40F944EE.2050605@byu.net><200407221108.28578.konqueror@gmx.de> <410103F1.1000702@byu.net>
Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> writes:

Eric> This is more of a general question I have about
Eric> reflection - is getDeclaredField() allowed to return the same Field
Eric> instance to more than one caller

I think the answer is "no", precisely because of security
considerations.  I couldn't find anything explaining this explicitly,
but as I recall this is the conclusion we came to on the Classpath
list when this subject came up there (a long time ago).

Tom

References:
- Patch: embedded window extension
  - From: Michael Koch
- Re: Patch: embedded window extension
  - From: Eric Blake
- Re: Patch: embedded window extension
  - From: Michael Koch
- Re: Patch: embedded window extension
  - From: Eric Blake

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]