On Monday 20 September 2004 22:42, Per Bothner wrote: > Mark Wielaard wrote: > > Why would a compiler emit extra initialization code for default values > > for fields? Not that I object to removing them, but it looks like the > > compiler emits unnecessary code in this case. > > One can construct torture cases where the semantics are different, for > both static and instance fields, if some code change the field value > before the initialization is assigned.
For this reason, removing the initialiser is not necessarily harmless; the code _might_ not work without it. Of course, such code should not be allowed to exist ... -- Chris Gray /k/ Embedded Java Solutions Embedded & Mobile Java, OSGi http://www.kiffer.be/k/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +32 3 216 0369 _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
