01: /*
02: * Copyright 2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
03: *
04: * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
05: * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
06: * You may obtain a copy of the License at
07: *
08: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
09: *
10: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14: * limitations under the License.
15: *
16: */
17: package org.apache.bcel.generic;
18:
19: /**
20: * Denote an instruction that may throw a run-time or a linking
21: * exception (or both) during execution. This is not quite the truth
22: * as such; because all instructions may throw an
23: * java.lang.VirtualMachineError. These exceptions are omitted.
24: *
25: * The Lava Language Specification specifies exactly which
26: * <i>RUN-TIME</i> and which <i>LINKING</i> exceptions each
27: * instruction may throw which is reflected by the implementers. Due
28: * to the structure of the JVM specification, it may be possible that
29: * an Instruction implementing this interface returns a Class[] of
30: * size 0.
31: *
32: * Please note that we speak of an "exception" here when we mean any
33: * "Throwable" object; so this term is equally used for "Exception"
34: * and "Error" objects.
35: *
36: * @version $Id: ExceptionThrower.java 386056 2006-03-15 11:31:56Z tcurdt $
37: * @author Enver Haase
38: */
39: public interface ExceptionThrower {
40:
41: public java.lang.Class[] getExceptions();
42: }
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