--- old/src/share/classes/java/lang/Object.java 2010-09-02 17:29:27.000000000 -0700 +++ new/src/share/classes/java/lang/Object.java 2010-09-02 17:29:26.000000000 -0700 @@ -189,7 +189,9 @@ * specific cloning operation. First, if the class of this object does * not implement the interface {@code Cloneable}, then a * {@code CloneNotSupportedException} is thrown. Note that all arrays - * are considered to implement the interface {@code Cloneable}. + * are considered to implement the interface {@code Cloneable} and that + * the return type of the {@code clone} method of an array type + * {@code T[]} is {@code T[]}. * Otherwise, this method creates a new instance of the class of this * object and initializes all its fields with exactly the contents of * the corresponding fields of this object, as if by assignment; the