RFR 9 and 8u: JDK-8029674: (reflect) getMethods returns default methods that are not members of the class

Joel Borggrén-Franck joel.franck at oracle.com
Tue Jun 10 06:18:29 UTC 2014


Hi Andrej,

On 9 jun 2014, at 21:56, Andrej Golovnin <andrej.golovnin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Joel,
> 
>> IIRC name isn’t actually interned with String.intern() but in the VM:s Symbol table as a name representing a (Java) method. Should be equivalent, as long as we don’t start comparing it with == with interned Strings.
> 
> I think that's not true.
> 

You are right, I was confusing name with the Symbol itself.

cheers
/Joel




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