Dealing with case insensitivity

Fri Mar 15 14:27:00 GMT 2002

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> The underlying issue is that it doesn't know whether its looking for a 
> class or a package when it sees something like "new 
> java.awt.image.Foo()" - afaik there is no way to know there isn't a 
> java.awt.image class defined in java/awt/image.java with an inner class 
> Foo?

I think basically we need to be able to read and parse a .java or .class 
file and continue searching it it does contain the class we need.
On other words: the read_class function (in jcf-parse.c) needs to be
able to interleave the logic of find_class with calls to either
parse_source_file_1 or jcf_parse:
read_class (name)
{
 for (each DIR in the path)
 {
 if (exists DIR/NAME.java)
 {
 parse_source_file_1 ();
 if (class NAME found)
 {
 parse_source_file_2 ();
 return;
 }
 else if (no class matching name, ignoring case)
 error();
 }
 else if (exists DIR/NAME.class)
 similar logic;
 }
}
When we see java.awt.image.Foo, I assume we first look for
a java/awt/image/Foo.java and java/awt/image/Foo.class *before*
we look for java/awt/image.java or java/awt/image$Foo.class?
If not, we should.
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