VM limits the number of methods to 64K.

Name: akC45999 Date: 09/15/98



The section "4.10 Limitations of the Java Virtual Machine" of JVM spec says:

The number of methods that may be declared by a class or
interface is limited to 65535 by the size of the methods_count
item of the ClassFile structure. Note that the value of the
methods_count item of the ClassFile structure does not include
methods that are inherited from superclasses or superinterfaces.

However VM limits the number of all methods to 64K:
if the number of class or interface and superclasses or superinterfaces
methods is more than 64K, VM (JDK1.2fcsJ) throws
   java.lang.InternalError: exceed 64K method table size limit.

To reproduce run JCK 1.2beta4 test
  vm/classfmt/lmt/mthnum001/mthnum00101m1/mthnum00101m1.html
The test tries to load valid class with 65535 methods.

This test used to pass before fix of security bug#4169277.

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