[kaffe] verifier and threads

[Helmer Krämer]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:34:31 -0500 (EST)
gonzo <Robert.N.Gonzalez at williams.edu> wrote:

Hi Rob,

> > > my other bug is also weird.  in Verify3, if you:
> > > 	postExceptionMessage(einfo, JAVA_LANG(VerifyError), MSG);
> > > when the error's thrown it yields a ClassNotFoundException and not a
> > > VerifyError (though MSG is retained).  however, ClassFormatError is found
> > > easily.  i can't seem to figure out why this is.
> > > 
> > > to reproduce this, simply post a VerifyError in verify2() or verify3().
> > 
> > [ changes to verify.c and some stacktraces ]

seems like I tracked this one down. The problem was that
Class.forName () catched the VerifyError and threw a
ClassNotFoundException instead. I've attached a pretty
simple patch that should fix this.

Greetings,
Helmer
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