Name: szC45993 Date: 05/13/98



The invokespecial instruction definition in 6 chapter The Java
Virtual Machine Instruction Set says:
"...

 Linking Exceptions

   During resolution of the symbolic reference to the method, any of the exceptions
   pertaining to method resolution documented in ?5.4.3c can be thrown.
...
   Otherwise, if no method matching the resolved name and descriptor is selected,
   invokespecial throws an AbstractMethodError."

These two assertions contradict each other because
the following is said in ?5.4.3c Method Resolution:

"If method lookup fails, method resolution throws a NoSuchMethodError."

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