5 misc fixes

Godmar Back gback at cs.utah.edu
Tue Apr 20 09:23:57 PDT 1999


> 
> 	INTERESTING: final public static int fields PUBLIC and DECLARED
> 	have different constant values as their JDK counterparts, so classes
> 	compiled with kaffe works incorrectly with JDK and vice-versa:
> 	*broken binary compatibility*, but JDK docs hide the actual value
> 	of such final static ints, though they are integral part of the
> 	classes' public runtime interface.
> 

I pointed that out to Gilad Bracha from Sun, but he more or less
just shrugged his shoulders.

I think we can write a test program that prints the values and fix
Kaffe with the values obtained that way.

	- Godmar



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