Weldon, thank you for catching this.
1) Entities I want to make C++ classes are struct Class and constant pool of a class. 2) Class members (fields and methods) are already C++ classes. 3) VTables are NOT going to become C++ classes. The motivation for moving to C++ is encapsulation of access to member variables of class and constant pool structures into interfaces thus allowing to control their current usage. Regards, Pavel. On 7/24/06, Weldon Washburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/24/06, Pavel Pervov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, all. > > I would like to work on cleaning the insides of Class.h header file. > > This header is related to internal representation of java class inside the > VM. Currently it contains all entities for internal class representation: > class itself, constant pool, members (field, method), exceptions handler, > vtable and so forth. > > First thing I would like to do is to split the file into a group of files, > each of which would contain only one entity (and some closely related > entities, if any). This would produce the following headers: > 1) Class.h – constant pool and class > 2) vtable.h – vtable > 3) class_member.h – field and method entities descriptors, exception > handler descriptor > 4) cci.h – code chunk entity (part of compiled method code) > > Second thing to do is to throw away members (and other stuff), which are not > used anymore and the only reason they are still there is history or they do > not belong to these files. > > Third thing to do is to make all these entities C++ objects. Please tell us the motivation. My main concern is moving to C++ and Java simultaneously. >Currently, > member variables of all listed entities are used arbitrarily throughout > DRLVM code. I would like to regularize usage and, also, document internals > of these entities. > > Certainly, I'll do all these changes step-by-step with little patches coming > in. > > Regards, > Pavel Pervov > Intel Middleware Products Division. > > -- Weldon Washburn Intel Middleware Products Division --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
