--bootclasspath overriding peer classfiles in a jar

Fri Mar 5 22:04:00 GMT 2004

So part of my method-stripping stuff means that while you drop
unreachable methods, you don't always drop the calls to those methods.
Same with field references. Previously, I was compiling one .class
file at a time and adding the "full, unpruned" libgcj.jar to the
CLASSPATH.
I'm trying to move towards jar-at-a-time, and my first step is to get
'gcj -c foo.jar' working. Unfortunately, it seems that if a class
appears in both the bootclasspath *and* in foo.jar, then other classes
in foo.jar which reference that class will get the jarred version, not
the bootclasspath version.
 1. Is this the intended behavior?
 2. If so, where should I start looking for a hack to alter this
 behavior?
 - a
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