Avoid failed compilations caused by JDK classes without zero argument constructors #393
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E.g., in https://github.com/plume-lib/plume-util/blob/master/src/main/java/org/plumelib/util/EntryReader.java, if all the constructors are removed, we get compilation errors of the following form:
I don't actually expect this PR to move the needle on plume-util compilation numbers, because fixing this problem exposed another issue in compiling the
EntryReader
class mentioned above (Specimin is incorrectly assuming that private classes can be referenced outside their containing class). That's a separate issue that I'll address in a new PR.