May be this is synthetic field (inner-parent reference)?
Check java asm for this test:
public class Test {
Object field;
public class Inner {
Inner() {
field = null;
}
}
}
public class Test$Inner extends java.lang.Object{
Test$Inner(Test);
Code:
0:
Weldon,
I confused this$ and class$ fields in your example.
Here is another example where class$ method is generated and used:
public class Test2 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Class cls = Test2.class;
}
}
and javap output is:
public class Test2 extends
Method class$ is synthetic and is produced by the Java compiler for some
class which references some class by the construct some class name.class
in its method' code.
For example, the code
---
Class c1 = Object.class;
---
will produce the following Java
All,
I am in the process of moving gnuclasspathadapter to a much new
version of Harmony Class Library. I did an svn update two days ago.
There is a problem in the early boot stage with the method class$
from the current version of java/lang/Character. I have looked at
