1 /* 2 * reserved comment block 3 * DO NOT REMOVE OR ALTER! 4 */ 5 /* 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 7 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 8 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 9 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 10 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 11 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 16 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 17 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 18 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 19 * limitations under the License. 20 */ 21 22 package com.sun.org.apache.bcel.internal.generic; 23 24 25 /** 26 * Denote an instruction that may throw a run-time or a linking 27 * exception (or both) during execution. This is not quite the truth 28 * as such; because all instructions may throw an 29 * java.lang.VirtualMachineError. These exceptions are omitted. 30 * 31 * The Lava Language Specification specifies exactly which 32 * <i>RUN-TIME</i> and which <i>LINKING</i> exceptions each 33 * instruction may throw which is reflected by the implementers. Due 34 * to the structure of the JVM specification, it may be possible that 35 * an Instruction implementing this interface returns a Class[] of 36 * size 0. 37 * 38 * Please note that we speak of an "exception" here when we mean any 39 * "Throwable" object; so this term is equally used for "Exception" 40 * and "Error" objects. 41 * 42 * @author <A HREF="http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~ehaase">Enver Haase</A> 43 */ 44 public interface ExceptionThrower { 45 public java.lang.Class[] getExceptions(); 46 }