Jeroen Frijters wrote: > Archie Cobbs wrote: > > Jeroen Frijters wrote: > > > > The Sun API spec clearly states that Class.getClassLoader() may return > > > > null, and in fact MUST return null for primitive type Class objects. > > > > So why worry about obviously buggy software? > > > > > > Because most software is buggy? If something runs on the Sun VM and it > > > doesn't run on my VM, do you think the user cares about who's bug it is? > > > > Sun's VM returns null for the boot loader.. here's an example: > > I'm sorry, but you lost me. I clearly don't understand what you mean. > Can you please clarify your original statement (the one I quoted above)?
Hmm.. you mean the statement "Sun's VM returns null for the boot loader" ? Otherwise I'm not sure what you're asking me to clarify... What I meant by "Sun's VM returns null for the boot loader" was that the method Class.getClassLoader(), when invoked on a Class instance associated with a Java class that was loaded by the bootstrap loader, returns null when executed on Sun's JDK. As an example of this, I provided a short program demonstrating how this is true for the specific case of the class java.lang.Object. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * CTO, Awarix * http://www.awarix.com _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
