A program invoking a static method on an interface is rejected with a java.lang.VerifyError.

% javac src/StaticMethodInInterface.java src/TestStaticIF.java
% java -classpath src TestStaticIF


Exception in thread "main" java.lang.VerifyError: Illegal type at constant pool entry 5 in class TestStaticIF
Exception Details:
  Location:
    TestStaticIF.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V @11: invokestatic
  Reason:
    Constant pool index 5 is invalid
  Bytecode:
    0000000: b200 0212 0304 bd00 0459 03b8 0005 53b6
    0000010: 0006 57b1

at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2467)
at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:2708)
at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1620)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.validateMainClass(LauncherHelper.java:528)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:510)