gnu.gcj.runtime.StackTrace.findCallerClass() (was Re: Patch: Remove exception catching from normal path in Arrays.equals.)

[Mohan Embar]

Hi Andrew,

> > I'll submit a patch for this. I thought about the conditional HAVE_BACKTRACE
> > too. The crux of the question is: on failure, should the helper method do
> > some sort of exception throwing or return a null value? You said previously
> > that you didn't like the null checking....
>
>If HAVE_BACKTRACE is not set, do not scan the stack but return null.
>
>If HAVE_BACKTRACE is set, we believe that backtrace() works.  So,
>throw an exception if we don't find a caller.
>
>I await the firestorm...

Um, I thought about this too but, you know the obviously glaring question
so can you pre-emptively answer it?

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