libjava status on Solaris 8/Intel and IRIX 6.5

Mon Mar 18 15:13:00 GMT 2002

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

>> 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" ...
>>>> }

Andrew> I don't understand. Why won't using a smart pointer as the
Andrew> arg work?
If this is a method, which most CNI code is, then the name of the
method must mangle in a way compatible with gcj. I guess we could
change the gcj mangling algorithm.
Tom