Re: Different behaviour reading static field Windows vs Linux

From:
Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:50:08 -0400
Message-ID:
<raWdnbY_dqUOHW3bnZ2dnUVZ_qzinZ2d@comcast.com>
colibri wrote:

    [*] That is, the actual code that you compile and run
to observe the puzzling symptoms. The code you provided
in your post -- both here and in the forum -- should have
produced nothing but a flurry of compiler errors. Let's
have a look at the Real Thing, okay?


Eric:

   Thanks for your help. I need your orientation here, because the
code is part of a framework and I think it would be impractical to
paste all the code here (thousand of lines).

   The code in the original post correspond to three different classes
and I am sure it runs without modifications. [...]


     Even though class `A' refers to the Collection and ArrayList
classes, but does not import either of them?

     Even though `class B extends A', but `A' is in a different
package and is not imported?

     Even though the `main' method is not inside a class?

     Even though the type of `main' is `void void'?

     "Without modifications," you say? Are you by any chance
related to Captain Corcoran? ("What, never?" "No, never!"
"What, _never_?" "Well, hardly ever!")

     I am not asking for all umpty-thousand lines of the original
program, but for a reduced sample that illustrates your problem.
What you've provided is reduced, I'll grant, but it illustrates
nothing at all because it won't even compile.

--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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