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5.3: Clean up class loading specification

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      There are a few issues with the specification of class loading:

      - Checks relating to `final` classes and methods, and an absent superclass, occur in practice at class loading time, not verification time. They should appear in 5.3.5, not 4.10. (There's actually quite a lot of overhead in 4.10 to support these checks. With the change, verification is only concerned with methods with code.)

      - The rules preventing circularity in superclasses/superinterfaces are imprecise.

      - Class loading behavior when there are multiple threads attempting to load a class is unspecified.

      - The behavior when a `loadClass` method does not behave as expected or throws an exception is not fully specified.

      - The notion of creating an "array class" does not belong in a discussion about class loading. (The section is about processing `class` files, not accounting for every java.lang.Class instance.)

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