Mark Wielaard <mark <at> klomp.org> writes:
> The problem is that some runtimes (like cacao and jamvm) dynamically
> load the "javalang" reference library through System.loadLibrary(). But
> we were relying on Math to do this since obviously it cannot be done in
> (VM)System/Runtime directly while those are being initialized.
>
> I have tried to find a better spot in the bootstrap cycle to do this,
> but couldn't find one. Ideas welcome.
>
> For now to get things working I just reintroduced the loadLibrary() call
> in the Math static initializer. This should work as before the
> Math/VMMath split even though it is a little ugly.
Another dumb question: Could you just do something like:
public class Math {
static {
VMMath.initialize();
}
...
}
class VMMath {
static void initialize() {
System.loadLibrary("javalang");
}
...
}
Or do the timing rules of class initialization make that impossible or
impractical somehow?
