--bootclasspath overriding peer classfiles in a jar

Sat Mar 6 12:12:00 GMT 2004

Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
> > 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?
> Yes. I don't understand why you would want it to do anything else.

If I put a file called java/lang/Object.class in a jarfile, Sun's VM
will not make it the ultimate superclass of all my classes.
> > 2. If so, where should I start looking for a hack to alter this
> > behavior?

> I suspect that -findirect-dispatch will do what you want.

Er, I don't think we're on the same page.... I want to use the
bootclasspath to resolve method references (ie play the role of
headers in the C++ world), but the actual .o files are generated from
the corresponding .class file within the jar.
 - a
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