[kaffe] The Verifier and Regression Tests

Rob Gonzalez rgonzale@wso.williams.edu
Mon Jun 30 06:43:01 2003


> I've started checking in small portions of the verifier for testing.  The
> first thing this has done is to cause kaffe to fail a regression test,
> ArrayForName.java ;)  In my defense, it's a bad test because an abstract
> method in some class I has a code attribute, which is not OK.  In fact,
> Sun's JVM won't allow the test to be run either:
> 
>     Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: I (Code
>     attribute in native or abstract methods)

Turns out that I had some class "I" buried in my CLASSPATH with this
problem that the VM was using instead of the array type, so no
problems here :)


Rob