[Kaffe] I am getting a ConcurrentModificationException

[Archie Cobbs]

Moses DeJong writes:
> I just downloaded the Kaffe CVS from today (Thu Sep 23), and I noticed
> that I got a new exception from the Hashtable code. My code works just
> fine on other JVM's, but it bombs out under the new Kaffe build. I know
> this code worked with Kaffe last week so it must be a new problem. Has
> anyone else run into this?
> 
> java.util.ConcurrentModificationException

I replaced kaffe's Hashtable implementation with one implemented
in terms of HashMap, which explains the change. You are seeing
"fail-fast" behavior. This is a bug which I'll fix.. the keys()
and elements() methods are not supposed to be fail-fast:

  http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/java/util/Hashtable.html

(there's a typo in the last sentence: "values" should be "elements").

However, this exception indicates that your program potentially
has a bug.. it's trying to iterate through the elements while
changing the contents of the Hashtable at the same time.

-Archie

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