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    /**
     * Links the specified class.  This (misleadingly named) method may be
     * used by a class loader to link a class.  If the class <tt>c</tt> has
     * already been linked, then this method simply returns. Otherwise, the
     * class is linked as described in the "Execution" chapter of
     * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>.
     *
     * @param  c
     *         The class to link
     *
     * @throws  NullPointerException
     *          If <tt>c</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     *
     * @see  #defineClass(String, byte[], int, int)
     */
    protected final void resolveClass(Class<?> c) {
        resolveClass0(c);
    }

    private native void resolveClass0(Class<?> c);