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Re: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface
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Sascha Brawer |
Subject: |
Re: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:04:20 +0100 |
Andrew Haley <address@hidden> wrote on Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:28:24 +0000:
>> [having the VMInterfaces classes clearly marked as 'special'
>> would make it easy for VMs and compilers to just inline all calls
>> to them]
>It's not particularly difficult to do, but at the moment we don't do
>it. gcj is perfectly capable of whole-program Java optimization but
>we have to follow Java rules, and one of those rules is that you
>cannot inline final methods because it breaks binary compatibility.
>We could teach gcj that VM<foo> classes are an exception to that rule,
>but I think you would agree that's not a pretty solution.
Apparently, Java 1.5 will have "meta-data" (arbitrary, uninterpreted
declarations for language constructs that are represented in bytecode and
accessible via reflection), similar to CLI/.NET. This might be a much
cleaner approach for declaring such exceptions. Of course, the free
compilers would need to support it first.
-- Sascha
Sascha Brawer, address@hidden, http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/
- RE: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface, Jeroen Frijters, 2003/11/04
- Re: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface, Patrik Reali, 2003/11/04
- Re: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface, Bryce McKinlay, 2003/11/05
- Re: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface, David P Grove, 2003/11/06
- Re: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface, Etienne Gagnon, 2003/11/06
- Re: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface, David P Grove, 2003/11/06
- Re: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface, Andrew Haley, 2003/11/06
- Re: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface, Tom Tromey, 2003/11/07
- Re: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface, David P Grove, 2003/11/07
- Re: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface, Patrik Reali, 2003/11/07