invokespecial on abstract method

Fri Oct 3 09:55:00 GMT 2003

Jeff Sturm writes:
 > 
 > ant.jar is a fine example. No user can reasonably expect to have all the
 > external classes referenced by ant.jar on their system. Some of them are
 > proprietary and not freely available.
 > 
 > > In order to compile and run these .jars, GCJ needs
 > > to be able to defer the linkage until actual use, as per the JLS spec -
 > > hence one of the reasons for the BC-ABI.
 > 
 > I know this has been discussed before but I'll chime in once again to say
 > I can't agree more.
Well, I think there's a fallacy here. It's not as if the gcj
developers have to decide which model to support -- we can support
both.
Andrew.