Description Philipe Mulet 2004-11-09 08:03:52 EST

Build 3.1M3

When compiling the following testcase, the problem classfile issued has an
invalid signature in it:

public class X extends Y<Y<?>> {
}
class Y<T> {}

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1. ERROR in d:\src\X.java (at line 45)
	public class X extends Y<Y<?>> {
	                       ^
The type X cannot extend or implement Y<Y<?>>. A supertype may not specify any
wildcard
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1 problem (1 error)
java.lang.ClassFormatError: Field "has inconsistent hierarchy" in class X has
illegal signature "V"
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)