> De: "John Rose"
> À: "Per Bothner"
> Cc: "Da Vinci Machine Project"
> 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:
>
On Jun 25, 2017, at 3:00 PM, Per Bothner 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 favor
On 06/25/2017 02:34 PM, John Rose wrote:
My overall goal is to keep the classfile alive as an efficient
medium for more and more advanced language runtimes.
That will be difficult as long as constant pool indexes and various
other fields are limited to 16 bits.
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--Per Bothner
p...@bo
On Jun 25, 2017, at 12:47 PM, Mark Roos wrote:
>
> I was looking for boot strap args to allow byte[] constants from the
> constantPool.
>
> Is that planned?
Yes; there are two more CP types planned:
1. CONSTANT_Data = arbitrary blob of octets
2. CONSTANT_Group = series of constant specifier
