Huh? test/Stock.java

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> From kaffe-approval at soi.city.ac.uk Sun Jul  6 12:38:10 1997
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> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at sensei.co.uk>
> To: xaa at stack.nl (Mark Huizer), kaffe at kaffe.org
> Subject: Re: Huh? test/Stock.java
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> 
> Mark Huizer wrote:
> 
> > Just a small question. Just for fun I tried some of the tests, giving
> > errors quite some times, but some are strange.
> > 
> > Take e.g. test/compiler/Stock.java...
> > 
> >                 try {
> >                         url = new URL( "http://localhost/" );
> >                         System.out.println( "Hi\n" );
> >                         System.out.println( url.getContent().toString() );
> >                         System.out.println( "Bye\n" );
> >                 }
> >                 catch (java.io.IOException e) {
> >                 }
> >                 catch (java.net.MalformedURLException e) {
> > 
> > Here it generates an error that it never reaches the second cache
> > statement (Stock.java:27: catch not reached.)
> > 
> > Isn't it supposed to be able to reach it? Or am I so wrong in my
> > understanding that one has to check for all exceptions in one catch and
> > try to find out what it is in other ways?
> 
> MalformedURLException is a subclass of IOException. If you want to
> catch instances of MalformedURLException separately, you need to
> reverse the order of the two catch statements.
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at sensei.co.uk>
> 
>