Parameter reflection: parameters with "" as their name

Alex Buckley alex.buckley at oracle.com
Thu Jan 24 16:40:28 PST 2013


On 1/24/2013 4:27 PM, Paul Benedict wrote:
> Why wait until runtime to discover ill-formed parameter names? Wouldn't
> it be better to catch these at verification time?

JVM implementations typically do not perform, at class load time, 
exhaustive format checking of attributes which are inessential to JVM 
operation. (See JVMS 4.8 and 5.3.5). Verification is a term often used 
incorrectly; it applies to Code attributes and nothing else. (See JVMS 
4.9 and 5.4.1.)

Alex



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