>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Crawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephen> [Besides, it is not clear that it matters much to anyone Stephen> right now. The current releases of Classpath, GCJ and Kissme Stephen> >>all<< have JNI function vectors that are incompatible with Stephen> JNI 1.0. The fact that nobody noticed until now tells me Stephen> something about the relative importance of these things.] Yeah. With gcj at least, not many people use JNI. And DefineClass is definitely not one of the more common functions to use. Still, the Sable guys noticed, so somebody is using it. Tom> Why bother with JNI at all? If it is going to be Kissme-specific, Tom> just put the calls directly in the code and be done with it. Stephen> In the long term, (strict!) compliance with the JNI API spec Stephen> is likely to be important to Kissme users. So this is one Stephen> reason to continue using JNI now, even though we are bending Stephen> it a bit. Sorry, I don't think I was clear. You're already going to change the native code to add special Kissme-only calls. Why do these new calls need to go in the JNI vector? Why not just make direct calls? We already know that no other platform is going to use these new functions. Stephen> In the JDK 1.4.0 documentation for JNI I downloaded from Sun Stephen> a few months ago: Stephen> jclass DefineClass(JNIEnv *env, jobject loader, Stephen> const jbyte *buf, jsize bufLen); How odd. Though I do wonder why I wrote the code the way I did in the first place... perhaps I also saw some incorrect documentation back then. Stephen> But ... in the JDK 1.4.0 documentation on the Sun website (today): Stephen> jclass DefineClass(JNIEnv *env, const char *name, jobject loader, Stephen> const jbyte *buf, jsize bufLen); Stephen> Something strange going on here! Perhaps DefineClass is defined Stephen> differently by Sun on different platforms?? I suspect the documentation you downloaded has a bug. What does your jni.h say? Both the IBM and Sun 1.4 JDKs have the `name' argument. I didn't check earlier JDKs; I'd be interested in the results. Tom _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
