namespace namespace

Wed Jun 24 09:18:00 GMT 2009

Sam Ruby wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Sam Ruby wrote:

>>> Is there something more I can provide? Will gcj/g++ also be fixed?
>>>> Well, I already suggested how you might fix gcjh. It's a matter of
>> whether you want to be able to access namespace namespace from CNI or
>> merely not have header files that choke C++. Why not try the fix?
>> For the moment, I'm doing the equivalent of sed scripts to post process
> the header files (actually, I'm using Ruby -pi -e).
>> I can certainly fix gcjh locally, but I want to share my results with
> others, and ultimately the fix should go into cvs. I'm certainly
> willing to do my share of the work, but you already identified the
> actual fix. What's the next step?

Someone must apply the change, make a patch, and test the results.
>> Do you really need CNI access to namespace namespace ?
>> What I am working on is the a Ruby extension that calls out to a HTML 5
> parser that happens to be written in Java and exposes a JAXP interface.
> Along the way, I will have a need to create and access, via CNI,
> objects of the type javax::xml::namespace::QName. I didn't create that
> class, nor can I change it.
>> http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/06/23/Validator-Nu-on-GCJ-Update

OK, I see. I was wondering whether this was a theoretical problem that
might just come up or something real. I was also wondering whether this
was relevant to free software.
Given that this looks real, and it is relevant to free software, I can
have a look. However, I can't go back in time, so any change that I make
will not affect the gcj that's in distros for some time to come.
Andrew.