> De: "John Rose" <john.r.r...@oracle.com> > À: "Per Bothner" <p...@bothner.com> > Cc: "Da Vinci Machine Project" <mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net> > Envoyé: Lundi 26 Juin 2017 00:21:58 > Objet: Re: constant-dynamic specification, updated
> On Jun 25, 2017, at 3:00 PM, Per Bothner < p...@bothner.com > wrote: >> That will be difficult as long as constant pool indexes and various >> other fields are limited to 16 bits. > Yep; that's a challenge, until we break the glass and make a > completely new class file format that integrates a var-int format. > (My favorite is UNSIGNED5.) > But we can (and should) put off the day of glass-breaking > by tactical moves like CONSTANT_Group, which will allow > you to express a single sequence of constant tokens of > any length, without (necessarily) using up indexes in the > main CP. like an array of value types for the constant pool ! Rémi
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