Re: new jalopy available

[Eric Blake]

Michael Koch wrote:
> Serializable classes have to have their fields in the same order as in
> in SUNs classes because of serialization issues.

I thought we already had the style rule that all serialized classes provide an 
explicit serialVersionUID - because we cannot depend on the compiler to 
generate the same serial version as Sun.  Case in point: when a class literal 
appears in the class, Sun emits a one-argument class$ method, but jikes emits 
a two-argument version; this affects the serial version.  Also, as long as the 
serial version is correct, deserialization is name-based (not offset-based). 
Therefore, field ordering does not matter, so long as we provide the explicit UID.

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Someday, I might put a cute statement here.

Eric Blake             address@hidden