Patch to avoid SegFault in natClass.cc

Mon Jul 16 17:56:00 GMT 2001

Martin Kahlert wrote:
> Can you tell me, what i have to do in order to get an uninitialized
> class for an instanceof test?

Try using the three-argument Class.forName() with a value of false for the
"initalize" parameter.
> I wildly mixed abstract classes with .class calls but i had no success.
>> Is there a deeper reason at all, why the classloader should be allowed to return
> an uninitialized class? If not, the _Jv_InitClass would be superflous.

Probibly for performance reasons, say to be able to reflect on some random class
without actually running its <clinit> code.
regards
 [ bryce ]