java/4366: java class initialization bug

[Anthony Green]

>Number:         4366
>Category:       java
>Synopsis:       java class initialization bug
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          wrong-code
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 20 01:06:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Anthony Green
>Release:        3.1 20010919 (experimental)
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: Linux fencer.cygnus.com 2.2.12-20smp #1 SMP Mon Sep 27 10:34:45 EDT 1999 i686 unknown
Architecture: i686

	
host: i686-pc-linux-gnu
build: i686-pc-linux-gnu
target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configured with: /fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/configure --prefix=/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i --enable-threads --enable-languages=c++,java : (reconfigured)  : (reconfigured)  : (reconfigured)  : (reconfigured)  : (reconfigured) 
>Description:

	I've found a situation where references to static final
strings in other classes isn't forcing a class initialization as it
should.

	The test code below has two classes, Bar and Belle.  Bar contains...

	if (Belle.ASTRING.equals ("Moya"))
	   ...do something...

	This is causing a NullPointerException.  Bell.ATSTRING is null
because Belle's class is never initialized.  The test code also has...
	
	System.out.println (Belle.ASTRING);

	And this _works_ even without initializing Belle because it's
not actually referencing Belle.ASTRING - it's going directly to the
constant table.

	This bug is preventing certain kinds of servlets from running
in Tomcat.


>How-To-Repeat:
Here are two java files and a Makefile...

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end
	
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