-Wcloneable ?

Wed Jan 17 06:16:00 GMT 2001

Hi,
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:08:40PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Today I thought about implementing a `-Wcloneable' option which would
> cause gcj to warn if a class implements Cloneable but doesn't have a
> public clone() method. Would this be useful?
I don't know. There is nothing wrong with using the default Object.clone()
method. For (very) simple object a field-by-field copy is good enough.
Maybe it should check to see that the class only contains primitive fields
and Strings?
Cheers,
Mark