libjava status on Solaris 8/Intel and IRIX 6.5

Mon Mar 18 14:38:00 GMT 2002

Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "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" ...
 > 
 > }
I don't understand. Why won't using a smart pointer as the arg 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.
Hey, I tried. It was a trivial change to g++ but they wouldn't let me
do it. :-(
Andrew.