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Re: What counts as a reference?

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Roedy Green wrote:

> I suspect that private static X x; counts as a reference even if there
> is no mention of X or x elsewhere.

From memory of the JVM spec (not the Java spec), the reference "private static 
X x;" must cause the containing class to fail to load (I forget at what stage) 
if there is no class X.

It's a long time since the JVM spec was part of my daily reading, though.

    -- chris 

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What counts as a reference? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-09-11 21:30 -0700
  Re: What counts as a reference? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-09-12 11:19 +0100
  Re: What counts as a reference? Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2014-09-12 15:47 +0100
  Re: What counts as a reference? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-09-12 21:53 -0700

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