Re: VMInterface addition: Make native library names part ofVMInterface

[Andrew Haley]

Sascha Brawer writes:
 > Andrew Haley <address@hidden> wrote on Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:28:24 +0000:
 > 
 > >> [having the VMInterfaces classes clearly marked as 'special'
 > >> would make it easy for VMs and compilers to just inline all calls
 > >> to them]
 > 
 > >It's not particularly difficult to do, but at the moment we don't do
 > >it.  gcj is perfectly capable of whole-program Java optimization but
 > >we have to follow Java rules, and one of those rules is that you
 > >cannot inline final methods because it breaks binary compatibility.
 > >We could teach gcj that VM<foo> classes are an exception to that rule,
 > >but I think you would agree that's not a pretty solution.
 > 
 > Apparently, Java 1.5 will have "meta-data" (arbitrary, uninterpreted
 > declarations for language constructs that are represented in bytecode and
 > accessible via reflection), similar to CLI/.NET.

So we'd have something like

   public final class VMfoo
   {
      @Inline void native bar (int i);
   
      @Inline void baz (int i) {
   
I could make that work.

Andrew.