libjava status on Solaris 8/Intel and IRIX 6.5

Mon Mar 18 14:08:00 GMT 2002

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:

Andrew> It's not ugly, just different. Instead of
Andrew> void barf (java::lang::grope *poo)
Andrew> you have
Andrew> void barf (ref<java::lang::grope> poo)
Andrew> and carry on as usual.
We can't do that for our CNI methods due to name mangling.
Instead we have to wrap all incoming arguments.
 void barf (java::lang::grope *poo)
 {
 ref<java::lang::grope> no_really = poo;
 ... hope you don't use `poo' by mistake in here, since it will
 silently "work" ...
 }
Even with this I think it makes sense for us to make the change. It
will take a lot of time and will be hard to maintain, but it seems
necessary. I'd prefer to change g++, but I'd guess that will be hard
to sell.
Tom