Re: encoder / decoder code

[Tom Tromey]

Artur> At some point in past Classpath converters were broken - they
Artur> was using static variable in superclass in way presuming it
Artur> will be different for each subclass. This allowed to have only
Artur> one converter active at same moment (last one to initialize was
Artur> overshadowing all others).

Thanks.  This is definitely not a problem with the libgcj approach.
So this is possibly another reason to use libgcj as a base here.

Tom