CNI changes (Was: Binary Compatibility)

Mon Aug 4 17:29:00 GMT 2003

Andrew> That's right. So why are we making so much fuss about this
Andrew> particular instance? It's only going to be an issue on a
Andrew> machine that has multi-word function pointers.
Well, if we want a stable ABI, then we need to either make sure that
the ABI is suitable for all platforms, or we need to commit to having
a different ABI for JNI stubs on these other platforms. I'd prefer
the former.
Ordinary code generation isn't the same sort of thing, since a change
there doesn't affect binary compatibility.
Tom