On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 06:07 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Ian" == Ian Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ian> the attached patch stops the lazy initialization of a Calendar object > Ian> in ZipEntry and instead uses a static final one. > > I thought this could lead to odd results sometimes, when the > calendrical data is in a zip. But it is hard to remember. Maybe a > bit of archaeology is in order -- looking through the cvs logs or the > list archives to see why the code is the way it is. (That info should > be in comments, of course...)
I don't remember all the details, but here are some pointers: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2002-q4/msg00294.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2003-03/msg00253.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2003-11/msg00105.html Sorry for being lazy myself... Cheers, Mark
