* Eamonn McManus: > The proposed change could be made, but it is not just a spec > change. All JVMs that don't currently conform to the spec would need > to change, as Rémi Forax notes, and that includes the JDK and its > derivatives. I'm not a HotSpot expert but my guess is that there's > some pretty sensitive code involved that the HotSpot team might be > reluctant to go poking around in.
*hmpf* There's some code out there which relies on source code order of members (it's not just Preon). Hotspot appears close enough to guaranteeing it that programmers make this assumption. -- Florian Weimer <fwei...@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99
