From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: java/1259: string constants not handled properly
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:23:00 -0000
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>Number:         1259
>Category:       java
>Synopsis:       string constants not handled properly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apbianco
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 20 12:18:23 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  
>Originator:     Tom Tromey
>Release:        unknown-1.0
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:
According to section 12.4.1 of the JVM, a class or
interface shouldn't be initialized if a field is
passively referenced; this includes references to
"static final" (or equiv.) fields whose value is a
compile-time constant expression.  The latter is
defined (section 15.27) to include Strings.

We don't seem to handle this at all.

I checked in the "stringconst.java" test which demonstrates
the bug.  However, that is just one instance; I suspect
there are others.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

Formerly PR gcj/241

>Unformatted: