Etienne Gagnon writes: > > Do we actually have to deal with platforms that have non 8-bit chars? > I guess quite a few other things/algorithms in the class library would > break if it is so... > > It's fine to be pedantic, but up to a point... > > FYI: The JNI specification guarantees that jbyte is an 8-bit signed value.
Yes, but it's not a question of whether the type jbyte is the same size as a character type, but whether it is treated in the same way as a character by the compiler. I asked the question on the gcc mailing list. (BTW: Alias set zero is the set of types that may alias every other type. In ISO C, character types are in alias set zero.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Byte types and aliasing Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:20:09 -0700 On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 01:27:55PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > Is a type of mode(byte) guaranteed to be in alias set zero? No. A language can do whatever they want. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- By this reading, I take it that a JNI implementor could define jbyte not to be a character type. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
