Probably true on Android, not universally true.  Would fail on
standard Java, like I said, if -Xfuture were specified.

On Oct 21, 5:27 pm, fadden <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 20, 11:10 am, DanH <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The wrapper class example is defective if the verifier is
> > "conventional" -- doesn't have the  swizzle you describe since 1.6.
>
> It works because the code does something like:
>
>   if (version is 2.0 or later)
>     use wrapped stuff
>   else
>     feature not available, do nothing
>
> The wrapper class would fail verification and not be usable, but
> references *to* the wrapped class would be okay.  Verification happens
> between loading and initialization.  If class C refers to class D, the
> VM needs to be able to load D and examine it, but does not need to
> initialize and verify D in order to verify C.  This is still true in
> older versions of Android.

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