overhead of reflection info

Wed Feb 25 00:46:00 GMT 2004

There is a claim in _Jv_MarkObj comments that some data structures
referenced from class objects are allocated pointerfree (even though they are
not?) but then traced correctly by _Jv_MarkObj. If this is indeed still correct,
this would have to be looked at carefully.
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org 
> [mailto:java-owner@gcc.gnu.org]On Behalf Of
> Tom Tromey
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:32 AM
> To: Adam Megacz
> Cc: java@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: overhead of reflection info
>>> >>>>> "Adam" == Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com> writes:
>> Adam> Ah, interesting. Since it is only called in the rare 
> case, could I
> Adam> just have it assume that every word of the object is a 
> pointer in
> Adam> order to play it safe?
>> Yes, with some changes in boehm.cc you should be able to set things up
> to do a completely conservative scan. Or you could modify the
> compiler to crash if it encounters a class for which it can't generate
> a bitmap descriptor.
>> Tom
>