>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mark> I vote that we add the Miranda methods explicitly to the Mark> abstract classes in Classpath that need them. Don't we only need this to work around gcj bugs? Maybe this should only happen in the gcj tree. In either case, let's mark the methods so we know to remove them later. Mark> The reason is that "modern" compilers like jikes (when used with Mark> -target 1.4) no longer generate them and buggy compilers like Mark> gcj -C never generated them. But not having those methods for Mark> the standard classes now makes the serialisation different Mark> (depends on Declared Methods) and breaks "buggy" VMs (that is Mark> almost all VMs since till very recently they all depended on the Mark> compiler generating these Miranda methods). I think we have to solve serialization problems differently -- by setting the UID explicitly and having tests. That seems like the only approach that will work with all compilers. Tom _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
