Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:15:25 -0800
Wrom: DULHPQQWOYIYZUNNYCGPKYLEJGDGVCJ
Subject: Signature attribute in class files
To: <###@###.###>

I'm updating the software I use to generate the quick-reference section
in Java in a Nutshell to handle Generics and the other new Java 1.5 syntax.

As part of this, I've been parsing the Signature attribute of class
files. I was surprised to discover that unless a type variable has an
explicit bound, the Signature attribute has java.lang.Object as the
bound. So my code naively parses the signature converts it to something
like this:

public abstract <E extends Object> interface List extends Collection

It seems to me that including Object as an explicit bound is unnecessary
and just takes up room in the classfile. Is this a bug that you'll be
fixing, or is it something that I need to work-around by discarding the
Object bound?
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