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Subject: Re: Problem with generics and dynamic array copy
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:23:31 -0700
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On 7/22/2011 10:30 AM, Sebastian wrote:

>> public static final <T> T[] arraycopy( T[] src )
>> {
>> Class<T> componentType = src.getClass().getComponentType(); // !!!!


RTFM.  getComponentType() returns Class<?>, not Class<T>.

<http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#getComponentType%28%29>

public Class<?> getComponentType()

     Returns the Class representing the component type of an array. If 
this class does not represent an array class this method returns null.