Michael Koch writes:
> Am Montag, 5. April 2004 20:06 schrieb Andrew Haley:
> > Etienne Gagnon writes:
> > > Andrew Haley wrote:
> > > > Well, not exactly: I'm suggesting that we wrap all those longs
> > > > in an opaque type. But otherwise, yes.
> > >
> > > So, how do you do opaque types, in Java?
> >
> > You write the code using a class that wraps your native pointer: a
> > class with a single member.
> >
> > > And how do you guarantee portability to 128bit systems?
> >
> > You tell people "if you have a pointer that won't fit in a jlong,
> > you'll need to change three lines of code".
>
> So we will have code like this:
>
>
> package gnu.java.lang:
>
> public class NativePointer
> {
> public long address;
> }
Yes. But don't use it directly: use
class gtkPeerPointer extends NativePointer
{
}
Andrew.
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