>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Patrick> Why does VMClassLoader.getPrimitiveClass take the whole type
Patrick> name as its argument? Wouldn't it be easier if it just took
Patrick> the type descriptor letter, since the VM already has to
Patrick> handle those, and you can make a switch statement out of
Patrick> them.
I don't know why it was done this way. Bryce made the same suggestion
you made. It seems reasonable to me. I don't know what must be done
to make a change to the interface to the VM, but I'm in favor of this
one.
Patrick> How do people typically implement this method?
I don't know. In libgcj we implement it via a special case in the
compiler.
Tom
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