object serialization

Mon Jun 28 06:04:00 GMT 1999

Jeff Sturm wrote:
>> Warren Levy wrote:
> >
> > On 1999年6月21日, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >
> > > >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com> writes:
> > >
> > > Jeff> Who is working on object serialization (java.io.Object* classes)
> > > Jeff> for libgcj?
> > >
> > > I don't think anybody is working on them right now.
> >
> > I'm not working on them right now but I should be dealing with them in
> > the coming months. Please keep in touch so we don't cover the same ground.
>> OK. Currently I have all stubs written (I can compile with them) and
> I'm working through the thorny details of TC_CLASSDESC... unfortunately
> the object serialization spec from Sun doesn't quite match the behavior
> of 1.1, so I had to resort to running some tests under the JDK and doing
> a little guesswork.

Just a note - kaffe has a more-or-less working clean-room serialisation
interface. You may not want to use their code (it's GPLed) but you can
certainly learn from it...
Jules
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