javac 7 is able to generate inner class that can't be verified
Rémi Forax
forax at univ-mlv.fr
Thu Jul 5 04:00:13 PDT 2012
Hi Maurizio, hi all,
there is a dubious code in javac that try to reuse existing inner class
(or create one)
when a constructor accessor need to be generated (see
Lower.accessConstructorTag).
Used in conjunction with the fact that the inner class exists but
is created in a block guarded by 'if(false)' leads to a half baked
generated class
(no code for method run()) so the inner-class doesn't pass the verifier
check.
Code to reproduce:
public class EmptyClassWithFakeConstructor {
private static class Foo {
// need to generate an accessor method
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Foo(); // call the accessor
if(false) {
new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() { // the code of this method is not generated
System.out.println();
}
}.run();
}
}
}
javap -c EmptyClassWithFakeConstructor\$1.class
Compiled from "EmptyClassWithFakeConstructor.java"
final class EmptyClassWithFakeConstructor$1 implements java.lang.Runnable {
EmptyClassWithFakeConstructor$1();
public void run();
}
as you see, the method run is empty (but not abstract).
cheers,
Rémi
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