thoughts on new reflection data

Fri Jun 30 15:35:00 GMT 2006

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:

Andrew> Tom Tromey writes:
>> Please comment on this.

Andrew> Well, it seems to me like you've thought about it quite carefully.
Andrew> The idea of encoding this stuff in the binary using a simple
Andrew> pointer-free format and lazily reading it is a strong one.
Thanks. Barring objection this is what I'll do then.
I hacked up the start of it to handle the Signature
attribute... looking pretty straightforward to do the rest. And,
thanks to Jeroen, a lot of the hard work of runtime annotation support
is actually already implemented. Once again we see the benefits of
the Classpath merge :-)
Tom