Patch: Fix for PR 258

[Warren Levy]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Bryce McKinlay wrote:

> Im going to check in this patch, which fixes PR 258. The type checking
> code now falls back to a slower technique in the (fairly rare?) case
> where the check can't be done using the constant time tables.

Thanks Bryce!  This'll be a big help with getting serialization right; the
failures were preventing a libgcj version of the 'serialver' utility from
working correctly.
--warrenl