Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Gary" == Gary Benson writes: > > Gary> The special cases are six years old, and GCJ seems to run fine > Gary> without them, passing make check, etc, but I wanted to see if > Gary> anyone knows of special weird cases in which this could break. > > I remember adding this to fix a bug (perhaps a false memory, since > the ChangeLog says Andrew did it :-), but I don't remember exactly > what it was. Something about Class.forName requiring URL which > required Class.forName, resulting in a crash. > > I did some digging but it wasn't very helpful... this change came > in via a jumbo patch back in the day: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2000-q2/msg00194.html Yeah, I saw some of that. From the comment it looked as though it might have had something to do with statically linked executables, but the attached test program shows handlers for both file and core have been created by the time main() is called, so... Cheers, Gary