c.toArray might (incorrectly) not return Object[] (see 6260652)

[Florian Weimer]

* David Holmes:

> Florian Weimer said the following on 05/22/09 03:18:
>> So says the ArrayList(Collection) constructor.  Can this bug report be
>> opened?  Is this workaround still necessary?
>
> I'm confused. The bug states:

Is the bug about the add method failing with an ArrayStoreException?

>     The Collection documentation claims that
>
>         collection.toArray()
>
>     is "identical in function" to
>
>         collection.toArray(new Object[0]);
>
> but I checked the Collection documentation back to 1.4.2 and it
> doesn't say anything like that as far as I can see.

It's there, but not in the documentation for toArray():

| Note that toArray(new Object[0]) is identical in function to toArray().

<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Collection.html#toArray(java.lang.Object[])>
<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Collection.html#toArray(T[])>