Bug: LoadClass ("[B") etc doesn't work

Mon Apr 4 18:21:00 GMT 2005

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:

Andrew> This is a fairly evil hack that seems to fix things.
I thought perhaps this should go in VMClassLoader.loadClass, but I
think that fails since we don't know the proper class loader for the
array at that point.
ClassLoader.loadClassFromSig should just call
_Jv_FindClassFromSignature. And, it shouldn't bother with the
'resolve' argument at all -- leave resolution to loadClass() itself.
(I'm checking in a small patch from Classpath that restructures
loadClass to make this more obvious.)
Hmm, _Jv_FindClassFromSignature won't do the right thing for certain
malformed signatures, like "[Lfoo". It should probably throw an error
rather than return NULL. It could also iterate rather than recurse,
just as a micro-optimization. I'm going to file this in bugzilla.
Tom