# HG changeset patch
# User darcy
# Date 1283551210 25200
# Node ID 352bf578a6ddc7f7e97ee94302ea738ed6264844
# Parent  b0d96823e6baaa57daf6cf986058b32acba09226
4881419: The type of X[].clone() should be X[]
Reviewed-by: martin

diff -r b0d96823e6ba -r 352bf578a6dd jdk/src/share/classes/java/lang/Object.java
--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/java/lang/Object.java	Fri Sep 03 21:03:45 2010 +0100
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/java/lang/Object.java	Fri Sep 03 15:00:10 2010 -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[]} where T is any reference or primitive type.
      * 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