Re: [cp-patches] Merge from generics -> HEAD

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 09:47 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew John Hughes <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Andrew> On the topic of the generics branch, I'd be interested to know
> Andrew> if anyone has managed to use the compiled branch with any
> Andrew> existing VM.  I've tried to use it with JamVM, but I get
> Andrew> failures in java.lang.Runtime
> 
> I would guess that the VMs need to be updated to recognize the new
> form of the 'ldc' opcode.  This isn't a major effort, but it needs to
> be done, since afaik all 1.5 compilers will use it to implement
> 'foo.class'.
> 
> Tom
> 

Any idea at what level this would affect things?  I have individual 1.5
compiled classes work with JamVM (notably, I can add the generics branch
on to the usual classpath, and get working enums...).  Saying that, I
may see if I can hack this in and whether it makes a difference.

On a related note, does gcjx include a variant of gij, or does it still
depend on gij as it is on trunk?  It would seem that when gcjx starts
being able to compile generics, we would need a compatible VM.  Just
wondering :)

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