hultul writes: > Hi, all~ > > I did some tests of java.io.Serializable's serialVersionUID using cp-tools. > All the VM's used in tests were from Debian testing release. > > As a result, kaffe, jamvm, sablevm, and gij showed different results from > Sun's java, where gij in GCC-3.4.3 not in Debian testing release showed same > one with Sun's. > > I guess that there is a problem in java.io.ObjectStreamClass.getClassUID() > or its calling methods in GNU Classpath. > > What do you think about this?
We use the correct algorithm, but serialVersionUIDs aren't guaranteed to be the same between libraries, and cannot be. If you want the serialVersionUID of a class of your own to be fixed, you must declare the field explicitly. Some Java compilers (e.g. ecj) emit a warning if you fail to do so. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
