Javac generates class files that violate the jsr175 format for annotations
containing array-class values. Javac acts as if the reference was to a class
literal for a class named "Array". This causes the readling library to fail
at runtime, or worse yet return a reference to some user class named "Array".

==========$ cat T.java
import java.lang.annotation.*;

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@interface A {
    Class value();
}

@A(int[].class)
class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        A a = Main.class.getAnnotation(A.class);
        System.out.println(a.value());
    }
}
==========$ newjavac T.java
==========$ newjava Main
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.TypeNotPresentException: Type [unknown] not present
        at sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy.generateException(TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy.java:27)
        at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationInvocationHandler.invoke(AnnotationInvocationHandler.java:56)
        at $Proxy1.value(Unknown Source)
        at Main.main(T.java:12)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Array
        at sun.reflect.ConstantPool.getClassAt0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.ConstantPool.getClassAt(ConstantPool.java:19)
        at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseClassValue(AnnotationParser.java:309)
        at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseMemberValue(AnnotationParser.java:241)
        at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation(AnnotationParser.java:184)
        at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:58)
        at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:43)
        at java.lang.Class.initAnnotationsIfNecessary(Class.java:2636)
        at java.lang.Class.getAnnotation(Class.java:2604)
        at Main.main(T.java:11)
==========$