_Jv_InitPrimClass?

Sun Mar 3 19:26:00 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?
>
As for why it is needed, this is a special case where we are 
constructing a Java object in static .bss data, because gcj-compiled 
code wants to refer to it directly via its symbol name, eg for static 
primitive arrays. The GC (not the constructor!) normally sets the vtable 
pointer for a Java object when "new" is called, but in this case we are 
not GC allocating it so that does not happen.
regards
Bryce.