I've added this information to the hacking document, thanks Eric. Brian
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If a class has a field (of any accessibility) named serialVersionUID > of type long, that is what serialver uses. Otherwise it computes a > value using some sort of hash function on the names of all method > signatures in the .class file. I'm not sure whether the methods are > sorted first, or what the hash function is. The fact that different > compilers create different synthetic method signatures, such as > access$0() if an inner class needs access to a private member of an > enclosing class, make it impossible for two distinct compilers to > reliably generate the same serial #, because their .class files > differ. However, once you have a .class file, its serial # is unique, > and the computation will give the same result no matter what platform > you execute on. > > Giannis Georgalis wrote: > > Thank you Eric, I however had to run the serialver tool on a > > i386/solaris8 system (I didn't want to install sun's SDK on my > > computer, just for the serialver tool). Does the output match > > every system ? Is there a posibility that there are different > > serialVersionUIDs for different systems? > > > > -- > This signature intentionally left boring. > > Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] > BYU student, free software programmer > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Classpath mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath > -- Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
