Per Bothner writes: > Per Bothner wrote: > > However, the Kawa testsuite fails, raising a ClassNotFoundException. > > I'm looking into it. > > Hm. This fails, with or without the patch: > clas = Class.forName(cname); > This works: > clas = Class.forName(cname, true, getClass().getClassLoader());
Okay, a stack trace failure. And a new one, despite the fact that the release branch still has the unchanged old stack trace machinery. > This is with make all && make install in the libjav directory. > I'm doing a 'cvs update' and rebuild from a clean tree in case the > problem is an artifact of the way I just rebuilt part of the tree. > > BTW, I've always though we should have the compiler rewrite: > Class.forName(NAME) > to: > Class.forName(NAME, true, getClass().getClassLoader()) > to avoid the fragility and ugliness and performance lossage > of doing the stack trace ... I started to do this, but there are quite a few places that need it: it's not just Class.forName(). Andrew.
