VMSpec 1.2 5.4.3.3

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 22, 2002, Martin Vechev <martin@fadata.bg> wrote:

> About method resoluton, as a 3rd step, it says the following:
> "......Otherwise, method lookup attempts to locate the referenced
> method in any of the superinterfaces of the specified class C.
> -       If any superinterface of C declares a method with the name and
> descriptor specified by the method reference, method lookup succeeds.
> -       Otherwise, method lookup fails. "

> I cannot think of a situation where one would need this for the
> invokevirtual instruction.

abstract class foo implements bar but defers implementation of
bar.buz() to classes that extend foo?

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