GCJ and generics

Tue Oct 14 11:58:00 GMT 2003

Alan Eliasen wrote:
> Hmmmm... yes, in a way, that's right. However, for example, in one
>case I listed,
>>public class BasicObjectEnumeration<T>
>	implements java.util.Enumeration<String>
>[...]
> Decompilation shows that one of these methods is just a bridge that
>delegates to the other:
>>Exactly.
> The Java spec (section 8.4.2) indicates that:
>>That's the JVM spec that count here, not the language spec.
>or
>that the return type can be considered in some way to be part of the
>signature.
>Exactly, the return type is always part of the signature at the 
classfile level.
Cedric