Name: laC46010 Date: 03/25/97



JDK1.1.1E VM fails to pass the following JCK test on win32 platforms:

vm/jni/FindClass/fncl001/fncl00103/fncl00103

The failure is caused by JVM's inability to distinguish
lower and upper cases in class names. Particularly,
when Java program needs to load class "A", JVM successfully
loads class "a" instead.

The following script (see java sources below):

  # JAVA variable denotes JDK1.1.1E
  JAVA=h:/ld13/java/dest/jdk1.1.1e/win32/bin/
  $JAVA/javac -d . aupper.java
  $JAVA/javac -d . test.java
  $JAVA/java -verify p.test
  $JAVA/javac -d . alower.java
  $JAVA/java -verify p.test

on win32 produces the following output:

A uppercase name class.
a lowercase name class.


which means that when we substitute class 'A' with class 'a',
test.class still can find 'A' class and successfully execute
its method 'm'.


--------------------- aupper.java ---------------------
package p;

class A {
void m() {
System.out.println("A uppercase name class.");
}
}

--------------------- alower.java ---------------------
package p;


class a {
void m() {
System.out.println("a lowercase name class.");
}
}

--------------------- test.java ---------------------
package p;

public class test {
public static void main (String[] arg) {
A obj = new A();
obj.m();
}
}
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