Jeroen> My VM (http://ikvm.net) is built on top of .NET, so I Jeroen> want to use the .NET class libraries for I/O, but the current Jeroen> java.io.FileDescriptor uses an int as the native handle, while I want Jeroen> the use a reference to a .NET stream object.
Brian> This is an assumption that isn't even valid under all flavors Brian> of UNIX; think 64 bit file systems for example. In libgcj we're using `int' in FileDescriptor. I don't think we have cross-platform problems. However, it wouldn't hurt to change this to `long'. I know this has come up before with libgcj, but I don't remember why we never made a change -- probably because on Windows, sizeof(int)==sizeof(void*). Tom _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
