C++ and Java CNI: Check Java references

Wed Apr 25 10:38:00 GMT 2001

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> Last night I was thinking that maybe if we turned every pointer in CNI
> into a reference then we could have gcjh add `operator *' to every
> class automatically.

I don't know what you mean by "every" pointer. A Java "variable"
(parameter, local, field, or array element) cannot be a C++ reference,
because references cannot be null nor can you change a reference to
point to some other object, both of which are required for Java variables.
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