Jeroen Frijters writes: > Andrew Haley wrote: > > We're losing context because of heavy snipping. > > > > The question of 1.5 bytecode came up in the context of gcj. > > Oh, sorry, I missed that. I thought it was a general Classpath point. > > > The "ldc class" is a Good Thing in that context. Also, I can see > > no reason not to recognize the new magic number. > > There is actually a good reason. If the 1.5 classes are missing, the > chances that a 1.5 compiled class will run are slim.
In which case it'll fail because of unresolved classes. I don't see how refusing to recognize the new format will help. > This is what Andrew John Hughes was trying to address with his > proposal to implement the 1.5 classes as much as possible (using > 1.4 sources). I haven't thought about it deeply, but on the surface > that seems like it could be a good idea. It could be. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath