On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:12 +0100, Luca Bruno wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Jürg Billeter <j...@bitron.ch> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 11:34 +0100, Luca Bruno wrote: > > 2011/12/11 Tal Hadad <tal...@hotmail.com> > > > > > This idea is based on the assumption that the size of > XClass struct > > > doesn't matter and can be changed(Am I right?). > > > Also, how does the virtual method order is currently done > by Vala? Is it > > > alphabetic or by the order of the decelerations? > > > > > > > The ordering does not matter, the padding does. > > Ordering matters as well. Vala uses declaration order. > > We're talking about virtual methods, aren't we? There's no ABI break > if the order of N pointers is exchanged.
When a subclass overrides a virtual method, the class_init function uses the offset of the virtual function pointer. If that offset changes, the subclass will need to be recompiled to work again. Jürg _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
