_Jv_InitPrimClass?

Sun Mar 3 19:03:00 GMT 2002

Adam Megacz wrote:
>Why is this in _Jv_InitPrimClass?
>> // We must set the vtable for the class; the Java constructor
> // doesn't do this.
> (*(_Jv_VTable **) cl) = java::lang::Class::class$.vtable;
>>It appeared sometime in late December... why do we use it now, and why
>didn't we need it before?
>
Before that it was done in a special native constructor in Class.h, 
which was implicitly called by static initializers in prims.cc, which 
were generated by a preprocessor macro. The new way fixes all kinds of 
problems.
regards
Bryce.