kaffe sematics of newInstance != jdk1.1.3

[Alexandre Oliva]

Guy Carpenter writes:

> With kaffe I can create an instance of a class in another
> package even if the class is not declared public.  Sun's jdk
> throws an IllegalAccessException when running the same code,
> and I believe that is the correct behaviour.

That's right.  The current implementation of Class.newInstance() in
Kaffe does not perform any verification.  This may be fixed in some
future release.

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Alexandre Oliva
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