RFC: Merge java.net.URL

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Wed Jan 10 16:02:00 GMT 2007


>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com> writes:

Gary> The special cases are six years old, and GCJ seems to run fine
Gary> without them, passing make check, etc, but I wanted to see if
Gary> anyone knows of special weird cases in which this could break.

I remember adding this to fix a bug (perhaps a false memory, since the
ChangeLog says Andrew did it :-), but I don't remember exactly what it
was.  Something about Class.forName requiring URL which required
Class.forName, resulting in a crash.

I did some digging but it wasn't very helpful... this change came in
via a jumbo patch back in the day:

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2000-q2/msg00194.html

Tom



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