Etienne Gagnon writes: > Etienne Gagnon wrote: > > FYI: The JNI specification guarantees that jbyte is an 8-bit signed value. > > Hmmm... Thinking about all this mess of "non-specified" C byte length... > > Can JNI actually be implemented on a 16-bit per byte system? > Anybody has a reasonable answer? > > To consider: > 5.2.4.2.1 Sizes of integer types <limits.h> > > [#1] The values given below shall be replaced by constant > expressions suitable for use in #if preprocessing > directives... > ... > -- number of bits for smallest object that is not a bit- > field (byte) > CHAR_BIT 8 > ... > > So, what how would one define "jbyte" on a platform where CHAR_BIT is > defined as 16? JNI depends on having such a type.
You'd have to do something non-ANS. I suspect that compilers on machines with non 8-bit bytes would define a byte type as an ANS extension. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
