why do we generate class$ for native code?

Thu Mar 11 07:31:00 GMT 2004

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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