RE: [patch #3174] Default implementation of VMAccessController.getStack

[Jeroen Frijters]

Casey Marshall wrote:
> I assumed that a reference implementation should illustrate what the
> method needs to do, not simply be empty. Besides, this method will
> succeed if the host VM can guarantee that Class.forName will reliably
> return already-loaded classes by name (I'm not sure how feasible this
> is. From my understanding of class loaders it should be possible to
> provide this guarantee, even if a pluggable loader is used).

There is no reliable way to turn a class name into a Class object,
without knowing the ClassLoader.

Regards,
Jeroen