4.0 backport of PR 19870

Wed Sep 28 14:20:00 GMT 2005

Ranjit Mathew writes:
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 > Matthias Klose wrote:
 > > Following the suggested list of backports in PR 24018, trying to
 > > backport PR 19870 results in failures in the libjava testsuite, all of
 > > the form
 > > 
 > > Exception during runtime initialization
 > > java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
 > 
 > Thanks for taking the trouble Matthias. I just want to let
 > you know that I've been able to reproduce the problem, but
 > haven't had the time to investigate further.
Ta for the info. I suppose it's possible the patch could be repaired
with a minor change, but until then it shouldn't be applied.
Matthias, can you please attach a note to 24018?
TVM,
Andrew.