What does IncompatibleClassChangeError signify?

[Zhong Yu]

I was hit by this problem before
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2013-September/010942.html
and I think it is probably a javac/java bug.

It happened in a fairly complicated code base, I tried to but couldn't
reproduce the bug with a simpler code sample.

Zhong Yu



On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Millies, Sebastian
<Sebastian.Millies at softwareag.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> This is with b106 under Windows. I have compiled some classes (no error) and then run one of them. At runtime I get:
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Class java8.monads.MaybeDemo$$Lambda$1 does not implement the requested interface java8.monads.Monad
> at java8.monads.Monad.lambda$94(Monad.java:50)
>             at java8.monads.Monad$$Lambda$3.apply(Unknown Source)
>             at java8.monads.MaybeMonad.bind(MaybeMonad.java:23)
>             at java8.monads.Monad.lambda$93(Monad.java:50)
>             at java8.monads.MaybeMonad.lambda$93(MaybeMonad.java)
>             at java8.monads.Monad$$Lambda$2.apply(Unknown Source)
>             at java8.monads.MaybeMonad.bind(MaybeMonad.java:23)
>             at java8.monads.Monad.ap(Monad.java:51)
>             at java8.monads.MaybeMonad.ap(MaybeMonad.java)
>             at java8.monads.MaybeDemo.main(MaybeDemo.java:35)
>             at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>             at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>             at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>             at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
>             at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:120)
>
> Now,  the code is likely very wrong, contains unchecked and perhaps illegal casts, erroneous type parameters etc. However, I'd have expected ClassCastException, NoSuchMethodError, ClassNotFoundException, whatever, but not a subclass of LinkageError. After all, how *could* any classes have changed? Why should re-linkage happen at all? No class has dependencies outside the JDK. Does something strange happen under the hood? Under what circumstances should I expect IncompatibleClassChangeError when using lambdas?
>
> Best,
> Sebastian
>
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