ARM support

Thu Jul 3 08:49:00 GMT 2003

Erik Poupaert writes:
 > 
 > Here he is obviously dead stuck in the water. There is no way to know if
 > myclass_mymethod2() is getting used anywhere or not.
 > 
 > In my impression, in order to drag along as few additional classes
 > and methods along in order to compile and link an entry point, the
 > purging must be done almost at source level:
This can be done at link time if a linker is sufficiently smart.
Indeed, it is done for C++, where it is called "vtable garbage
collection." The problem in Java is that every method is reachable by
reflection.
Andrew.