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+++ b/src/main/gov/nasa/jpf/vm/ClinitRequired.java	Fri Jan 23 10:14:01 2015 -0800
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2014, United States Government, as represented by the
+ * Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * The Java Pathfinder core (jpf-core) platform is licensed under the
+ * Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
+ * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. 
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package gov.nasa.jpf.vm;
+
+/**
+ * this one is kind of a hack for situations where we detect deep from
+ * the stack that we need a clinit to be executed, but we can't flag this
+ * to the currently executed insn via a return value. referencing annotation
+ * elements that are enums is a good (bad) example
+ */
+public class ClinitRequired extends RuntimeException {
+  ClassInfo ci;
+  
+  public ClinitRequired (ClassInfo ci){
+    this.ci = ci;
+  }
+  
+  ClassInfo getRequiredClassInfo() {
+    return ci;
+  }
+  
+  @Override
+  public String getMessage(){
+    return ci.getName();
+  }
+}