Multiple method definition errors building GCJ 3.3

Thu Dec 19 14:46:00 GMT 2002

On 2002年12月19日, Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> Trying to figure out the cause of this error, I noticed that they
> were being thrown for methods that were defined inline in gcjh
> generated headers like "java/lang/String.h", etc. I don't know
> C++ properly, but it seems that these methods are not being
> inlined for some reason even though almost all of them are
> trivial "return foo;" type methods.

I didn't see a reply to this...
> Should gcjh explicitly mark them "inline"?

Perhaps. You want the method body to be expanded once, somehow. (My C++
is rusty and not getting any better these days.)
> Why doesn't this problem come up on other platforms?

GNU/Linux emits these methods with weak symbols. Win32 doesn't support
weak symbols. That could be the reason.
Jeff