On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:08:18PM +0200, Jeroen Frijters wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose a fundamental change to the VM interface on the > generics branch. In particular, I'd like the VM interface (and in this > case I mean strictly the interface between the Foo and VMFoo classes) on > the generics branch to be compatible with the main branch. That way a VM > can use the same VM interface code for both branches. > > This means, for example, that in VMClass, we use Class instead of > Class<T>. In some cases this requires additional casts in the > corresponding class, but these casts are removed by the compiler so they > don't affect performance or code size. > > Another example is that VMSystem.environ() would return a String[][] > instead of a List<String> (as an aside, IMO, it's always better to use > built-in types across the VM interface, e.g. manipulating an array in > JNI is easier and more efficient than manipulating a List). > > Another, possibly more contentious, case is VMClass.getTypeParameters(), > this currently returns a TypeVariable<Class<T>>[], but I wonder if it > wouldn't be better to simply return a string and do the signature > decoding (which presumably is common to all VMs) in > java/lang/Class.java. > > Any thoughts? > > Regards, > Jeroen >
Has there been any movement on this? I haven't seen any of it being applied to the branch. Cheers, -- Andrew :-) Please avoid sending me Microsoft Office (e.g. Word, PowerPoint) attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html No software patents in Europe -- http://nosoftwarepatents.com "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics' respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html public class gcj extends Freedom implements Java { ... }
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