why do we generate class$ for native code?

[Per Bothner]

The function build_incomplete_class_ref in parse.y
has this comment:

  /* Generate the synthetic static method `class$'.  (Previously we
      deferred this, causing different method tables to be emitted
      for native code and bytecode.)  */

I'd like to understand why this is important.  Perhaps we should
revisit this, given that JDK 1.5 will not generate class$ helpers.
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