a question about GCJ source code

Mon Feb 21 18:53:00 GMT 2005

Yang Chang writes:
 > 
 > I just begun to read the source code of GCJ and felt confused on the layout 
 > of the java.lang.Object's instances. As we know, the first word in any 
 > object should be a pointer to a _Jv_VTable structure. However, I can't find 
 > this pointer in the definition of java::lang::Object class.
You won't: a vtable pointer is generated by the C++ compiler.
 > Interestingly, in /gcc/java/decl.c, I found this:
 > 
 > PUSH_FIELD(object_type_node, field, "vtable", dtable_ptr_type);
 > 
 > therefore, there seems to be a conflict.
I'm unaware of any conflict.
Andrew.