On 4 Nov 2002 nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk wrote: > Perhaps someone who knows about GCJ might spot why the above would be > a bad thing to do? Here's a pointer to the original discussion. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2001-08/msg00133.html Besides the infinite loop there are other pitfalls. I don't know if ld.so makes any guarantees about the order of initializers, if not you could potentially have the wrong class version initialized. Jeff