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LinkageError
  public
  
  
  
  class
  LinkageError
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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        | BootstrapMethodError | 
        
          Thrown to indicate that an invokedynamic instruction or a dynamic
 constant failed to resolve its bootstrap method and arguments,
 or for invokedynamic instruction the bootstrap method has failed to
 provide a
 call site with a
 target
 of the correct method type,
 or for a dynamic constant the bootstrap method has failed to provide a
 constant value of the required type. 
          
    
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        | ClassCircularityError | 
        
          Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine detects a circularity in the
 superclass hierarchy of a class being loaded. 
          
    
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        | ClassFormatError | 
        
          Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine attempts to read a class
 file and determines that the file is malformed or otherwise cannot
 be interpreted as a class file. 
          
    
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        | ExceptionInInitializerError | 
        
          Signals that an unexpected exception has occurred in a static initializer. 
          
    
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        | IncompatibleClassChangeError | 
        
          Thrown when an incompatible class change has occurred to some class
 definition. 
          
    
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        | NoClassDefFoundError | 
        
          Thrown if the Java Virtual Machine or a ClassLoader instance
 tries to load in the definition of a class (as part of a normal method call
 or as part of creating a new instance using the new expression)
 and no definition of the class could be found. 
          
    
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        | UnsatisfiedLinkError | 
        
          Thrown if the Java Virtual Machine cannot find an appropriate
 native-language definition of a method declared native. 
          
    
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        | VerifyError | 
        
          Thrown when the "verifier" detects that a class file,
 though well formed, contains some sort of internal inconsistency
 or security problem. 
          
    
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        | AbstractMethodError | 
        
          Thrown when an application tries to call an abstract method. 
          
    
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        | GenericSignatureFormatError | 
        
          Thrown when a syntactically malformed signature attribute is
 encountered by a reflective method that needs to interpret the
 generic signature information for a type, method or constructor. 
          
    
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        | IllegalAccessError | 
        
          Thrown if an application attempts to access or modify a field, or
 to call a method that it does not have access to. 
          
    
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        | InstantiationError | 
        
          Thrown when an application tries to use the Java new
 construct to instantiate an abstract class or an interface. 
          
    
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        | NoSuchFieldError | 
        
          Thrown if an application tries to access or modify a specified
 field of an object, and that object no longer has that field. 
          
    
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        | NoSuchMethodError | 
        
          Thrown if an application tries to call a specified method of a
 class (either static or instance), and that class no longer has a
 definition of that method. 
          
    
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        | UnsupportedClassVersionError | 
        
          Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine attempts to read a class
 file and determines that the major and minor version numbers
 in the file are not supported. 
          
    
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  Subclasses of LinkageError indicate that a class has
 some dependency on another class; however, the latter class has
 incompatibly changed after the compilation of the former class.
Summary
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        Creates and returns a copy of this object.
        
    
 
      
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        Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.
        
    
 
      
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      finalize()
      
      
        Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection
 determines that there are no more references to the object.
        
    
 
      
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        Returns the runtime class of this Object.
        
    
 
      
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        Returns a hash code value for the object.
        
    
 
      
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      notify()
      
      
        Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's
 monitor.
        
    
 
      
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      notifyAll()
      
      
        Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor.
        
    
 
      
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      toString()
      
      
        Returns a string representation of the object.
        
    
 
      
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      wait(long timeoutMillis, int nanos)
      
      
        Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically
 by being notified or interrupted, or until a
 certain amount of real time has elapsed.
        
    
 
      
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      wait(long timeoutMillis)
      
      
        Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically
 by being notified or interrupted, or until a
 certain amount of real time has elapsed.
        
    
 
      
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      wait()
      
      
        Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically
 by being notified or interrupted.
        
    
 
      
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Public constructors
    LinkageError
    
public LinkageError ()
    
    
    
  Constructs a LinkageError with no detail message.
 
    LinkageError
    
public LinkageError (String s)
    
    
    
  Constructs a LinkageError with the specified detail
 message.
    
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        s | 
        
          String: the detail message. | 
      
    
 
    LinkageError
    
public LinkageError (String s, 
                Throwable cause)
    
    
    
  Constructs a LinkageError with the specified detail
 message and cause.
    
    
    | Parameters | 
      
        s | 
        
          String: the detail message. | 
      
      
        cause | 
        
          Throwable: the cause, may be null | 
      
    
 
 
 
  
  
    
  
 
  
    
    
      
       
    
    
  
  
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