getSimpleName() in java.lang.Class<T> broken for classes that are defined in objects

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[http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#getSimpleName() getSimpleName()] yields an "java.lang.!InternalError: Malformed class name" for Scala classes, which are defined inside Scala objects.

object Toast {
  class Egg {
    def eat = println(this.getClass.getSimpleName)
  }
}

object Main extends Application {
  new Toast.Egg().eat
}

yields

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Malformed class name
	at java.lang.Class.getSimpleName(Class.java:1129)
	at Toast$$Egg.eat(Test.scala:3)
	at Main$$.<init>(Test.scala:8)
	at Main$$.<clinit>(Test.scala)
	at Main.main(Test.scala)

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Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-286?orig=1
Reporter: Daniel Lorch (daniel)

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@dragos said:
This happens because 'getSimpleName' is assuming the name has a certain pattern of '$$'s, which unfortunately is not the case when the class is defined inside a top-level object. The IBM JVM for instance is printing the right name, so this is an issue of Sun's implementation. Changing the naming scheme for objects requires quite a lot of thought so I postpone this issue for.

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@odersky said:
Milestone postponed deleted

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@paulp said:
This code did the right thing on all JVMs I have ready access to, but I didn't want to close it in case I just didn't find the right JVM. However, the fact that it worked on sun's linux JVM makes me suspect that the bug is no longer valid. Iulian, can you confirm or dispute this for me?

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@paulp said:
Okay, I went all the way to trying this out on windows and it works. So I'm closing this as fixed.