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Re: FYI: Win32 InetAddress fix (really)

Gary Benson wrote:
+ // Some soon-to-be-removed native code synchronizes on this.
+ loopbackAddress = LOCALHOST;
+ }
+ catch (UnknownHostException e)
+ {
+ throw new RuntimeException("should never happen", e);
+ }
Would it be better to throw an InternalError here rather than RuntimeException? If it truly should never happen then it would be an InternalError if it did. If it can happen, then it should be of some type the describes the problem.

David Daney



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