> From: Petter Reinholdtsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > Hi. Since John Keiser is busy for the next couple weeks and I am
> > free, I am going to try working on the integration piece between
> > Classpath and Japhar.
>
> Sounds good. I'm busy to, and only occationaly online. I'm on
> vacation until 1999-01-04.
>
> I've tested the reflection patch, and it seem to work OK. I'm trying
> to decide for myself it the native state handling will require central
> coordination to avoid storing two different states using the same
> pointer. Will this be necessery?
>
What reasons can you see to add this sort of extra check? The only one I
can see is to avoid allowing Joe Schmoe's code to set Class, Thread, and
reflect.* native state (or, more generally, to avoid having two different
distributions try to modify the same native state pointer). I think people
should just write in the docs what native state pointers they're using, and
that should warn others not to set those pointers.
--John
