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The documentation of the equals method from object states that comparisons must be per semantic value. array.equals compares per reference value. The following code does not act consistently int[] rba, vba; .... vba.equals(rba)) --> false; Nevertheless this test is succesfull: assertEquals(vba.length, rba.length); for (int i = 0; i < rba.length; i++) { assertEquals(vba[i],rba[i]); }
This is a language spec issue, nothing to do with our compiler. Object#equals is implemented as an identity check, and clients may refine it to be more tolerant (i.e. compare held values instead). array #equals is spec'ed to use the Object method implementation. Please complain against the owner of the language spec, we have to comply.
