On Jun 5, 2005, at 2:05 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
"Geir" == Geir Magnusson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Geir> That's not fair. I told you that *I* think that extending
java.lang
Geir> is a *bad idea*.
I still don't understand why you think this.
Could you explain what problem might arise?
Sun adds "java.lang.VMObject" as a public class (ok, farfetched) or
adds it as a private class (not so farfetched).
Geir> Also, I don't know what the 1.4 and 1.5 Java API requirements
on the
Geir> VM are, but given that GNU Classpath isn't there yet, isn't
it even
Geir> plausible that may have something to add?
Yeah, the VM interface has to be extended in a few ways for 1.5.
Also from time to time the VM interface has to be extended for new
VMs, which have different needs. This is one reason that the
interface isn't yet stable, even for 1.4.
It would be interesting to know why and how it was extended - there's
something to learn there. I'm also interested in getting some input
from the commercial VM developers.
geir
Tom
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