Description Olivier Thomann 2004-11-24 10:46:24 EST

Using latest, we optimize out the static receiver for a static field invocation.
We should not as this prevents the declaring class of the static field from
being initialized and this can have a side-effect on the method invocation.

public class X {

    static int Value = 2;
    
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        foo();
    }

    public static int foo() {
	    return Y.CONST.getValue();
    }

    public static int getValue() {
		return Value;
    }

}

class Y {
    static {
		X.Value = 0;
		System.out.println("Class Y is initialized");
    }
        
    static X CONST = null;
}

When executing X, it should display:
Class Y is initialized